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Archive for August 2006

August 3rd, 2006

Diagnostic Criteria Narrowed for Melanoma

MedPageToday recently had an article of interest. Recent research has provided doctors with an improved method for differentiating between skin cancer and good old-fashioned sun-damaged skin. The article is fairly technical, but it seems to boil down to this: Melanoma and sun-damaged skin have many characteristics in common. As a result, physicians, erring on the […]

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August 2nd, 2006

Biting the Bullet

Adam Knapp, columnist for the Wichita Eagle, has given in and shaved his head. I can totally relate to his recollection of not being recognized. The day after I shaved my head (and face; I have a full beard going, too) half my co-workers thought I was a new hire. I wasn’t about to shatter […]

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August 1st, 2006

Hair Transplant History

Dr. Robert Bernstein has a piece on his blog today, about the history of Hair Transplants.
Over the years the grafts have gotten smaller and smaller. So where in the ‘60s and ‘70s they were the size of pencil erasers, they gradually decreased in size until doctors were performing hair transplants using just a few hairs […]

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