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Article: Hair! From personal statement to personal problem. (baldness)
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- December 1, 1991
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From the shaved heads of medieval monks, to the long-haired hippies of the 60s, to the spiked hairdos of today's punk rockers, hair has always made a personal statement.
"It's one of the leading ways people can establish their individuality and express their style," says Jerome Shupack, M.D., professor of clinical dermatology at New York University Medical Center in New York City. "Hair has had sociological importance throughout the ages."
Because of its importance, anything that happens to our hair that we can't control-falling out or turning gray, for instance-can be the source of much anxiety.
In the United States, some 35 million men are ...