Word: methoxsalen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible dangers of the methox-salen suntan pills, Meloxine and Oxsoralen (TIME, Aug. 4), the A.M.A. declared: "No one knows what will happen to the skin when courses of methoxsalen and sun exposures are repeated once, twice, or oftener each year for many years. Nor is it yet certain what effects, good or bad, this drug will have on the development and course of skin malignancies or on the usual senile skin changes." Determined not to have its editorial head turned by the bronzed body beautiful, the A.M.A. concluded that "even the esthetic value of its effects is still dubious...
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