Injectable Skin Tan May Cause Mole Changes
BBC News reports, “An unlicensed medicine which can be injected to produce a tan may be responsible for worrying changes in skin moles, say doctors. Two women told Salford dermatologists that they had both injected ‘Melanotan’ shortly before noticing the problem.” One woman “had two moles on her foot which had increased in size and darkened over just a few weeks. The other, who was 30, told doctors that the moles on her back had also rapidly darkened.” Medical watchdog groups “have issued warnings about the untested nature of the Internet-supplied jabs, the British Medical Journal reports.
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