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Just One Intense Sunburn Can Change Your Health Forever, Research Shows


For anyone whose childhood summers included an annual peeling of sunburned skin, here's an uncomfortable question: Did those regular burns do lasting damage to your skin? A meta-analysis published in JAMA Dermatology suggests the answer is probably yes.

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