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There’s more disappointing news about multivitamins: Two major studies found popping the pills didn’t protect aging men’s brains or help heart attack survivors.

Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on vitamin combinations, presumably to boost their health and fill gaps in their diets. But while people who don’t eat enough of certain nutrients may be urged to get them in pill form, the government doesn’t recommend routine vitamin supplementation as a way to prevent chronic diseases.

The studies released Monday are the latest to test if multivitamins might go that extra step and concluded they don’t.

Read the rest — Multivitamin study: No benefits for heart disease, cancer or heart attack

What the article reflects is the benefits directly to a multi-billion dollar industry (vitamins), with what is apparently little value received in return.

It’s the holiday season, so we’re not going to post today or tomorrow like we would normally do. We’ll be back on Thursday!

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Health authorities in Sydney are investigating whether patients of a hair replacement clinic have contracted hepatitis or HIV.

The Health Department says there’s evidence the clinic wasn’t properly sterilising equipment. But they haven’t been able to contact former patients because the department believes records have been stolen.

The Health Department says the risk of infection is low but numbers involved could be in the hundreds.

Read the rest — Hair replacement clinic may have given patients hepatitis or HIV

They are issuing alerts to patients of Dr Angela Campbell’s clinic that would have had a hair transplant between December 2010 and February 2013. The patient records went missing, so they don’t have any way of finding the patients to inform them.

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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Former ‘N Sync star Joey Fatone has undergone hair transplant surgery after experiencing premature balding.

The singer agreed to try out the hair restoration treatment, courtesy of bosses at medical firm Bosley, and he’s been so impressed by the results, he has signed on as the new face of the brand.

He says, “It (the surgery) was pretty intimidating. That’s life, but the beautiful thing is that now you can do something about it.”

Read the rest — Joey Fatone undergoes hair transplant

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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.

Great blog. thanks for all of your advice and help to those of us who are dealing with this issue. I know that you are well known in the field and was wondering why your practice was not listed on the American Hair Loss Association website that listed physicians who perform surgeries.

I do not contribute money to them or participate in their activities, but I am sure they know who I am. Clearly, their list of surgeons doing this type of work is incomplete.

I’ve written many times about some of these associations and their credentialing methods, most recently in these posts:

• Donor Doubling? ACell? Hair Replication?
• Board Certification in Hair Transplantation
• Which Association Site is Best for Finding a Hair Transplant Doctor?

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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…

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“Erectile dysfunction is something that we haven’t talked about much in the cardiology office, but we are finding that it is a harbinger of coronary artery diseases. For instance, if you are a 70-year-old man with erectile dysfunction, your risk for coronary disease is increased one to 1.4 times, but if you are a 40-year-old man with erectile dysfunction your risk for coronary disease is 40 to 50 times higher.”

Read the rest — Erectile Dysfunction: Harbinger of Heart Disease?

The above quote comes from a Q&A with Dr Stephen Kopecky (professor of medicine and consultant in preventive cardiology at Mayo Clinic), so I wanted to highlight it here.

I am a strong believer that early identification of coronary artery disease can save your life, so if you are under 50 years old and have ED, then you should see a cardiologist.