Hair Disorders

Hair loss due to other causes

Hair removal

Pubic lice

Pubic lice are small, six-legged creatures that infect the pubic hair area and lay eggs. These lice can also be found in armpit hair and eyebrows. Causes, incidence, and risk factors Pubic lice...

Forensics

Many questions in the legal system can be answered using scientific techniques. These are termed forensics. Examples inlcude fingerprint recognition, DNA databases, iris (eye) indentification and...

Feministing Friday: Obsessing over my look and what to do with my hair

My relationship with my hair has been tenuous my entire life. Like most little (black) girls of my generation (X) there was much hullabaloo over length, softness and coarseness. I liked my hair as a...

Hair Care May Affect Exercise in Black Women

Study blames hair worries for exercise deficit in some black women, but an outside expert describes the study as 'very superficial.' Medscape Medical News

Why good hair matters: First animal model of recent human evolution reveals that mutation for thick hair does much more

The first animal model of recent human evolution reveals that a single mutation produced several traits common in East Asian peoples, from thicker hair to denser sweat glands, and computer models sugg...

Hair Concerns May Discourage Exercise for Some Black Women

MONDAY, Dec. 17 -- For black women, a desire to protect expensive and often fragile hairstyles can be a barrier to exercise, new research suggests. The finding is gleaned from responses to a small pol...

Animal model of human evolution indicates thick hair mutation emerged 30,000 years ago

(University College London) The first animal model of recent human evolution reveals that a single mutation produced several traits common in East Asian peoples, from thicker hair to denser sweat glan...

B'IOTA BOTANICALS Provides U.S. Consumers With Clinically-Shown Herbal Products for Thinning Hair / When It Comes to Hair, Thin Is Definitely Not in

GREENWICH, CT -- (Marketwired) -- 04/04/13 -- The new trend in hair care is not a cut, or a color, or a style. Instead, it is the promise of thicker, fuller-looking hair. One of the biggest hair is...

Expert Beverly Hills Hair Restoration offers 6 Tips to Achieve Healthy Hair and Prevent Hair Loss that Won't Break the Bank

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 24, 2013 But, there are some hair care and hair loss solutions that don't involve reaching into your purse for your credit card. Expert Dr. John Kahen M.D., medi...

LaserTouch Aesthetics Is Excited To Announce The Addition Of Electrolysis to the Array of Services Offered at its White Plains, Westchester location

White Plains, NY (PRWEB) December 24, 2012 Electrolysis hair removal permanently destroys hair by gently delivering a minor electric current to the base of the hair follicle through a very fine n...

Effects of repeated hair washing and a single hair dyeing on concentrations of methamphetamine and amphetamine in human hairs.

The effects of repeated hair washing and a single hair dyeing on concentrations of methamphetamine (MA) and amphetamine (AM) in hair samples of MA addicts were studied. Thirty-one MA positive hair sam...

Novel stain-free lecithinized coal tar formulation for psoriasis.

Background  Coal tar has been a very popular traditional treatment for various types of psoriasis for over a century. It is the first-line treatment for scalp, hand, and foot psoriasis. However, the...

Model-based prediction of human hair color using DNA variants.

Predicting complex human phenotypes from genotypes is the central concept of widely advocated personalized medicine, but so far has rarely led to high accuracies limiting practical applications. One n...

The latest innovations in hair transplantation.

Hair restoration began as a result of the fortuitous finding by Dr. Norman Orentreich that hair follicles taken from an area of nonbalding scalp could be implanted into an area of male pattern hair lo...

Biology of Human Hair: Know Your Hair to Control It.

Hair can be engineered at different levels-its structure and surface-through modification of its constituent molecules, in particular proteins, but also the hair follicle (HF) can be genetically alter...