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Archive for May 2006

May 21st, 2006

Braiding May Lead to Hair Loss

Summer’s coming, and that means beach vacations. Be careful, ladies! (And men, now that braided styles are becoming more common.) Those cane rows might be just the island style for which you’ve been looking, but they might also cause you to lose your hair. From The Jamaica Observer.
Living in a culture eternally obsessed with braids, […]

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May 20th, 2006

Hair Loss Linked to Iron Deficiency

A review of 40 years worth of research by dermatologists at the Cleveland Clinic has turned up a link between hair loss and iron deficiency. From WebMD.
“We believe that treatment for hair loss is enhanced when iron deficiency, with or without anemiaanemia, is treated,” Leonid Benjamin Trost, MD; Wilma Fowler Bergfeld, MD; and Ellen Calogeras, […]

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May 19th, 2006

Head Shaving Help

If you’ve ever thought about going all the way and shaving your head, Head Shaving Help has all the advice you need.
If you’re thinking about shaving your head, you’ve come to the right place - Welcome!
The search you did to find this website showed you there are scores of websites that provide information about head […]

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May 18th, 2006

Komfy Kids

These are too cute!
Komfy Kids are therapeutic dolls that have been designed to assist in the psychological well-being of children with hair loss due to cancer, alopecia, or otherwise.
Your child will instantly become attached to their plush Komfy Kids doll as it helps them regain their confidence and self-image, and your child will have a […]

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May 18th, 2006

The Fragile Sportsman

I’m sure a number of you caught the Zach Lund story back during the winter Olympics. He’s the US skeleton racer who was banned for having used finasteride (aka Propecia), which not only helps regrow hair but also masks a few performance enhancing drugs. Zach says he was using it to grow hair, and there’s […]

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May 17th, 2006

Curis Q1 2006 Financial Results

Curis, who in March reached a development milestone for a hair loss treatment, released their financial results for the first quarter of 2006.
For the first quarter of 2006, Curis reported a net loss of $4,049,000, or ($0.08) per share, as compared to a net loss of $5,381,000 or ($0.11) per share for the same […]

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May 16th, 2006

The Hamilton-Norwood Scale

Did you know that male pattern baldness has it’s own measurement scale? It’s true. The Hamilton-Norwood Scale is used to measure the degree of hair loss.

I’d guess that I’m about a 6. What about you? How do you rate on the Hamilton-Norwood Scale?

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May 15th, 2006

Lindsay’s Difficult Journey

Here’s a nice little piece to start the week off. The Union, out of Nevada County, California, is running an editorial by high school senior Lindsay Adams.
Lindsay was diagnosed with alopecia as a seventh-grader. Though her hair has returned as a result of favorable steroid treatments, she has chosen to title her senior project Creating […]

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May 14th, 2006

Jodi Pliszka - Guest Post

To conclude our interview, I offered Jodi a post of her own, free reign to say whatever she wanted about whatever she wanted. Well, Jodi lost her job during the American Inventor competition. But as you’d expect from someone with her enthusiasm and optimism, she sees this as an opportunity to get a public speaking […]

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May 13th, 2006

Interview with Jodi Pliszka Part 3 - American Inventor

Today, we conclude our Mother’s Day interview with Jodi Pliszka. Part 1 and Part 2 were posted earlier in the week, and tomorrow will conclude with a guest post from Jodi. We finish the interview by discussing her experience on American Inventor.

Baldiness.com: How did you hear about the show? What pushed you to audition?
Jodi: […]

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