Lisa Schencker is a Tribune business reporter covering health care. She writes about patients, hospitals, health insurers and pharmaceutical companies. Before joining the Tribune in 2016, she worked at Modern Healthcare and at daily newspapers across the country, including the Salt Lake Tribune for seven years.
Use of tanning beds nearly triples the risk of developing melanoma, and it also damages the DNA of skin cells across the body, according to a study from Northwestern Medicine.
A new device from Abbott Laboratories, called Lingo, is geared toward people who donāt have diabetes but want to see how food and activity affect their glucose levels.