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News - bits and pieces - advertisement for hair-growth hair spray banned as misleading (26 Jan. 2006). Penalty for excessive, unsubstantiated claims for hair growth product.
News - bits and pieces - British high court rules involuntary haircut equivalent to assault (18 Jan. 2006). Assault can include cutting someone's hair without their consent.
News - bits and pieces - 2500 year old bog man proves vanity is timeless (17 Jan. 2006). Hair gel has been around a long time.
News - bits and pieces - An elephant's tail hair tells its life story (6 Jan. 2006). Elephants never forget - and neither does their hair.
News - bits and pieces - hair exposes illegal hormone use in cattle (12 Dec. 2005). Hair testing can now be used to find hormone injected cattle.
News - bits and pieces - human hair cure kills cats (29 Nov. 2005). Cats confuse minoxidil with milk.
News - bits and pieces - cancer detection may be made easier by testing patients' hair for mineral content (04 Nov. 2005). Cancer may induce changes to mineral content in hair fibers. Testing for changes in the mineral content of hair may be one method of diagnosing cancer early.
News - bits and pieces - link between hair and breast cancer disproved (19 Sept. 2005). In an article from 1999 (see below) scientists claimed that breast cancer could be diagnosed by testing hair. This study suggests the original study was wrong.
News - bits and pieces - Japanese barbershops are a new focus for hair-loss consultation (7 Sept. 2005). Barbershops in Japan are a new source of hair loss information.
News - bits and pieces - Indian hair exports not threatened by religious boycott (4 May. 2005). Exporting hair for wig manufacture is lucrative for India.
News - bits and pieces - ever wonder why you never see a chimpanzee getting a haircut (30 Dec. 2004). Scientists and anthropologists are looking into why human have long scalp hair and chimpanzees do not.
News - bits and pieces - wig wearing Jewish wives face divorce (12 Jul. 2001). Married Jewish women cover their heads as part of their religion, but using wigs is wrong according to some Rabbis.
News - bits and pieces - composer Beethoven's hair contains clues to illnesses and death (10 Mar. 2001). Hair analysis reveals Beethoven was poisoned.
News - bits and pieces - hirsute child from Kathmandu, Nepal (20 Nov. 2000). Hirsutism can be a genetic condition that reveals itself in children.
News - bits and pieces - hairball in stomach kills teenager (20 Aug. 1999). Eating hair (trichophagia) can result in a potentially life-threatening hairball (called a trichobezoar).
News - bits and pieces - bad cough, sir? Here, grow this beard once a day (18 Aug. 1999). Beard hair does have a use after all!
News - bits and pieces - I'll have a hair pizza please! (5 Aug. 1999). Your pizza could include human hair derived ingredients.
News - bits and pieces - hairdresser cleans up with Nasa (26 Jul. 1999). Cut hair is usually just thrown away, but it could be used to help clean up after oil spillages.
News - bits and pieces - hair scare in Cambodia (25 Jun. 1999). Hair can be a really scary business.
News - bits and pieces - Locks of Love helps children with medical hair loss achieve crucial self-esteem and confidence (12 Jun. 1999). Non-profit organization helps provide wigs to children with hair loss.
News - bits and pieces - hair testing may be used to screen women for breast cancer susceptibility (4 Mar. 1999). Scientists claim that hair can show changes that might be used to diagnose cancer.

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