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Article: August Is National Hair Loss Month.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- July 30, 2004
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- There is a month for everything! August is National Hair Loss Awareness Month. The American Academy of Dermatology states that this annual event is designed to increase public awareness about hair loss, the importance of early detection, and available treatment options. Hereditary hair loss, the most common form of hair loss, affects nearly 50 million men and 30 million women in the United States according to the National Hair Journal.
There has always been a search for a cure. Ancient remedies for baldness included dogs' paws, asses' hooves, urine, burned prickles of a hedgehog immersed in oil, boiling snakes alive, chicken dung and ...