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“The suggestion that bald men are more virile than their well-thatched contemporaries is probably an old wives’ tale, but it must be conceded that old wives are likely to be unusually authoritative in this matter.”

So said the esteemed British dermatologist John Burton back in 1979 when the topic was first explored in the medical literature. Burton was notably balding at this time.

Since the time of Hippocrates it has been known that eunuchs do not go bald. This link between masculinity and baldness was confirmed by the anthropologist James Hamilton in the 1940s when he studied the hair patterns of prison inmates in the United States. He was particularly interested in the sex offenders who had been castrated by the authorities as part of their sentence.

Read the rest — Are bald men more virile?

So are bald men more virile? Spoiler alert — The answer is “no”.

Dr Rassman

Do all NHI’s surgical technicians have valid, unrevoked, or unsuspended certificates/licenses?

Do they place the grafts in the receptor sites during HT surgery? And if they do, is the surgeon in the room all the time with his HT patient, supervising that process of grafts transplant?

Yes, NHI surgical technicians are highly trained and operate under the license of Drs. Pak and Rassman. There is no certificate or license in this field other than general medical assistance training.

The technicians do place the grafts. More importantly, all of our technicians receive specialized training at NHI and are supervised.

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When your hairline starts to retreat, you’ll do whatever it takes to keep your head from turning into a volleyball. If Rogaine fails you, there are always these quack remedies from the past.

1. Ancient Egypt
According to The Ebers Papyrus (a medical script from c. 1550 BCE), mix the fat of a hippo with some crocodile, tomcat, snake, and ibex fat. If that fails, boil porcupine hair and apply it to your scalp for four days.

2. Ancient Greece
Hippocrates swore by a mixture of opium, horseradish, pigeon droppings, beetroot, and spices. If that’s not your cup of tea, stick to Aristotle’s method—goat urine.

Read the rest at Mental Floss — 14 of History’s Craziest Baldness Cures

There are some really nutty “cures” that have obviously not worked, and this list of 14 is pretty wild. I guess people were eager (or at least willing) to smear various animals’ fecal matter on their heads in order to regrow hair.

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Singer Robbie Williams has revealed he had a hair transplant despite not needing one.

The 39-year-old made the admission while chatting about how living in Los Angeles had rubbed off on him during an interview on The Graham Norton Show, which airs on Friday evening.

He said: ‘I’ve lived in LA for a long time and they say, ‘If you sit in a barber’s shop for long enough you will get a hair cut.’ Well, if you live in Los Angeles for long enough you’re going to get some surgery.

Read the rest — Robbie Williams reveals he had a hair transplant despite not needing it after succumbing to LA lifestyle

Nobody really needs a hair transplant (it is an elective cosmetic procedure), but it looks like his hairline corners were going back a little before the surgery and are now filled in. Either way…

Our office is closed today and tomorrow to celebrate Thanksgiving with our families. We’ll be back on Monday!

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Clinging to hope, the Linden, N.J., couple took Josia to see Stanislaw Burzynski, a Houston doctor claiming to be able to do what no one else can: cure inoperable pediatric brainstem tumors.

Virtually any other doctor might have recited the same sad statistics: Although doctors can now cure 83% of pediatric cancers in the U.S., there is usually no hope for kids with Josia’s tumor. Perhaps 5% survive five years.

Burzynski — an internist with no board certification or formal training in oncology — has said publicly that he can cure half of the estimated 200 children a year diagnosed with brainstem tumors. The Cottos were told that treatment could cost over $100,000, mostly out of pocket, because insurance plans often refuse to cover Burzynski Clinic treatments.

Read the full story (or watch the video at this link) — Doctor accused of selling false hope to families

USA Today has an interesting exposé about an alternative medicine practitioner that is peddling his snake oils to cancer patients, even with the National Cancer Institute saying that he hasn’t cured any patients and he has nothing about his claims published in a respected, peer-reviewed medical journal.

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The magic of television is so powerful, it can produce hair where there is none!

“Two and a Half Men” star Jon Cryer revealed Monday night that he is nearly bald. The “spectacular mane of unruly wonderfulness” that he sported back in the ’80s in movies like “Pretty in Pink” is gone and his hair on the hit comedy is actually an “elaborate illusion.”

Read the rest — Jon Cryer’s Hair-Loss Confession: His ‘Two and a Half Men’ Mane Is Fake!

We wrote about him a few years ago, but he confessed on the Conan show that his hair on the show comes from a “long, involved process that starts with stuff like shoe polish”.

The pictures of Jon Cryer with and without hair (see photos in the link above) shows how significant the look can be in determining how old and healthy a hairy look imparts to a person.