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Women who suspect they are losing their hair should talk with a dermatologist. Androgenetic alopecia is the most common diagnosis. As women get past 40, they tend to exhibit more signs of female-pattern hair loss, which is a diffuse thinning all over the scalp, most severely at the top. Men, conversely, experience male-pattern baldness, which involves receding hairlines and large patches of baldness. However, the triggers for female hair loss can be diverse, including emotional or physical stress--giving birth, a hysterectomy, an eating disorder or depression. Many medications can be culprits, including high-blood-pressure drugs, cholesterol...
After five years of thinking about having the procedure done, Cox, who originally found it impossible to talk about her hair loss, showed up in Reed's office. Her surgery took four hours. "It was not painful at all," says Cox. "Afterward, my scalp was a little sore in some places." Three or four months later, she had an inch of brown hair growing where there had been none. Though her wallet was a bit sore too--the procedure cost $5,000--Cox enthuses, "I feel my appearance reflects my age and my vitality, where before I was unhappy with...
...people been all these years? The Alliance is a far-left pressure group that makes its living by whipping up its liberal five- and ten-dollar contributors to oppose any conservative judicial nomination that they can make a fuss about. And here they have decided to take a Republican scalp back home to their membership...
...points; the White House was bracing for the mid-August restatement of corporate income, which was expected to increase pressure on Bush to crack down on the kind of people who had assembled at the resort. "It felt like a funeral," recalls Bainwol. Democrats were calling for the scalp of Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt and citing poll numbers that pointed to big gains for their party in both houses. "They were filled with the euphoria of our misery," Bainwol says of his rivals...
...priest of mad love. Uniformed in Lycra for the Atrocity Olympics, he pursues the tag team of Lily and her pretty social-worker friend with the majestically jerky movements of a Ray Harryhausen monster. Finally he assaults them in a spike-in-the-eye, scalding-iron-to-the-scalp, buzzsaw-barbered fight to the death and beyond...