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The Medicine Cabinet-Ask the Harvard Experts: Hair pulling can become a destructive habit
Premium Health News ServiceQ: Is there an effective treatment for hair pulling? A: Hair pulling is more common than many believe. It may affect up to 3.5 percent of adults, although some experts say the number is closer to 1 percent. The older name for this condition is...Tags: Social Sciences, Drugs and Medicines, Craig Miller, Prozac (drug), Health Treatments
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Ringworm infection takes on many forms
Despite its name, ringworm is not caused by a worm. Instead, it develops when fungus grows and multiplies on the skin. Dr. Dakara Rucker Wright, a dermatologist with the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group who practices at Kaiser Permanente's Towson...Tags: Tinea Cruris, Athlete's Foot, Onychomycosis, Dermatology, Tinea Corporis
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Hampton woman working to publicize alopecia - hair loss can affect all ages
Latina Sethman-Benthall has no hair. By age 12, after several years of patchy hair loss, her diagnosis of alopecia universalis, an autoimmune disease that affects 5 million Americans — men, women and children — left her completely bald. For...
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Student finds a refuge in his art
Bryant Santamaria sees something of himself in Frida Kahlo. The Hoover High School senior, like the Mexican surrealist, endured health problems and long hospital stays — Bryant while battling leukemia and the hair-loss condition alopecia, and...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Students, Frida Kahlo, Polio
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What women can do about thinning hair
No one wants to lose their hair, but for a woman it is particularly distressing. While men can look perfectly presentable — even sexy — with their exposed scalp, no such options exist for the 30 million American women who grapple with thinning...Tags: Iron (dietary supplement), Hampton Roads Transit, Genetics, Health Treatments, Food and Drug Administration
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Group wants 'beautiful and bald' Barbie for children with cancer
FOX NewsOver the years, Mattel’s iconic Barbie doll has had every hairstyle imaginable, including a bubble beehive, a ‘60s flip and even multi-colored hair extensions. But she’s never been bald. That may change if the women behind the...Tags: Social Media, Genesis (music group), Chemotherapy, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Mineola
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Finding the root of the problem with hair extensions
Hairstylist Reggie Dowdy has found himself time and time again doing emergency hair repair on women whose tresses have been damaged by weaves and extensions.
They come in with bald spots, also known as alopecia, and thinning hair caused by heavy weaves...Tags: Mount Vernon, Cleveland Clinic, Dermatology, Naomi Campbell, Alopecia
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The Dangers Of Hair Extensions
PIX11.comFrom Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Lopez, hair extensions are one of the hottest trends among the stars but it could also leave you with permanent damage, like baldness. Board certified dermatologist Dr. Schweiger and Chioma Odimegwu, one of his patients,...Tags: Dermatology, Kim Kardashian, Naomi Campbell, Alopecia, Cosmetic Procedures
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Actress Makes Documentary About Struggle with Alopecia
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Imagine one day you start to lose your hair, and before you know it, all of your hair has fallen out. It's a reality for millions of men, women and children in the United States. For one Los Angeles based actress, the disease turned...Tags: Environmental Issues, Diseases and Illnesses, Documentary (genre), Human Body
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Health Notes: Walk for Beautiful Kids Organization on Saturday - first-time event
The Beautiful Kids Organization is a non-profit organization supporting children suffering with Alopecia.
Alopecia is a disease of the hair follicles which results in loss of hair on the head and eventually the entire body.
Children of all ethnic...Tags: Hampton University, Research, Diseases and Illnesses, Hair Loss, College Football
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Gayle on the Go! Events for Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011
KTLA NewsKTLA's Gayle Anderson featured this events in Saturday's edition of Gayle on the Go! Free! Gray Column by artist De Wain Valentine Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles (310) 440-7300 www.getty.edu Take a look at artist De Wain Valentine's...Tags: Social Media, John Ford, Artists, Festive Events, Fine Arts
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NATIONAL ALOPECIA MONTH
Gayle Anderson was live in Brea because September is National Alopecia Awareness Month, dedicated to spreading awareness about the disease and condition that results in hair loss. There are two types of Alopecia, non-scarring and scarring. Alopecia...Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Scalp, Alopecia, Texas Rangers, Minor League Baseball
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