Dermatology Nurses' Association Joins Symphony To Raise Funds For Melanoma Education
100.com, Dec 7, 2007
The Dermatology Nurses' Association (DNA) joined the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and other performers last month for a benefit...
The Childrens Melanoma Prevention Foundation on ABC Morning Show
Giving Beauty
Norwell Mariner, June 28, 2006
Charles David Salon event brings in funds for kids at South Shore Hospital...
Learning to be Safe this Summer
CBS News Coverage, June 21, 2006
Schools Learn About Sun Protection
Hingham Mariner, July 14, 2005
To help reduce the incidence of skin cancer in the area, Hingham Institute for Savings provided a generous grant to the Sun Protection Foundation to teach sun protection education on the South Shore......
Skin Cancer Workshop hit its Mark In Quincy
Connections, December 9, 2005
The 3rd annual Skin Cancer Workshop for Nurses and Health Educators, sponsored by the Sun Protection Foundation (SPF), the Melanoma Education Foundation (MEF), and the American Cancer Society New England Division in Brockton, Massachusetts (ACS) was a huge success...
Play Safe in the Sun
WDS Newsletter, November 2005
The newly launched "WDS Families Play Safe in the Sun" campaign is designed to provide skin health awareness and education to young families and to promote sun safety...
Workshop Highlights Skin Health
Quincy Sun, April 14, 2005
More than 70 local nurses and health care educators gather in Quincy last Friday to raise awareness about the dangers of skin cancer...
Funpages: Sun Safety
Boston Globe, April 3, 2005
Nurse Maryellen Maguire-Eisen started the Sun Protection Foundation to make people aware of the danges of the sun and skin cancer...
Sun Protection Foundation Spreads SunWise Message
SunWise Monitor, January 2005
Working with 16 local schools, the Sun Protection Foundation - a nonprofit educational organization based in Boston - presented its sun safety awareness program to more than 8,000 pre-kindergarten to 12th grade students ...
Made in the Shade
Rockland Mariner, September 24, 2004
Summer may be over, but Rockland students learned this week the damage the sun can do is a year round concern. On Tuesday, Maryellen Maguire-Eisen and Rob Gilman, a meteorologist for the Patriot Leger and WATD, talked to 3rd and 4th graders...
Positively Bazaar: Sidewalk Festival Under Way
Patriot Ledger, July 18, 2004
If you think your passport or driver's license photo doesn't do you justice, wait until you visit registered nurse Maryellen Maguire-Eisen's nook at the Sidewalk Festival in Quincy. She takes photos of festival-goers using and ultraviolet reflectance camera that reveals the extent of skin damage caused by exposure to the sun...
Discovery Zone
Marshfield Mariner, June 16, 2004
With Skin Cancer on the Rise, Local Agencies Increase Efforts
Boston Sunday Globe, May 27, 2007
As a child in Serbia, vacationing on sunny Adriatic beaches each summer, Michael Jovanovic never gave skin cancer a second thought. But now, at 80, he is concerned enough to get two suspicious growths checked...
Mole Mapping Technology Helps Prevent Skin Cancer
Patriot Ledger, May 25, 1999
A new digital technolgy being used by a Hingham dermatologist will make it easier to detect moles that could become cancerous. Use of the "mole-mapping" technology, which involves a nurse using a hand-held digital camera to film irregular moles and transferring it by film card to computer, should help reduce the incidence of skin cancer......