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Published: 02/17/11

Scientists Stumble Upon Possible Breakthrough in Treating Baldness

By  Hugh Collins - AOL News
Scientists Stumble Upon Possible Breakthrough in Treating Baldness

Researchers in California may have made a breakthrough in the treatment of baldness – completely by accident. The researchers from the University of California at Los Angeles and the Veterans Administration were studying the gut functions of mice with alopecia, an affliction where all of an animal's hair falls out, The New York Times reported. They treated the animals with a chemical and returned them to cages with normal, furry mice. When they returned to look at the animals a few months later, they saw something very strange: None of the mice in the cage were bald -- all had a full ...

Published: 07/26/10

Advice to Lonely Gen X Men: Lose the 'What ifs' and Past Loves

By  Suzi Parker - Politics Daily
Advice to Lonely Gen X Men: Lose the 'What ifs' and Past Loves

It's an epidemic lately: the wistful what-if. My Generation X guy pals are consumed by this ailment. "What if I had asked so-and-so to marry me 10 years ago?" "What if I had agreed to the baby . . . would she have stayed?" "What if I had moved to Seattle and not stayed close to family?" Oh, the laments. They play like a Nirvana song among the never-married or divorced former slacker boys. When I read Andrew Cohen's Politics Daily piece about the love of his life marrying someone else, the same symptoms popped up. I immediately wanted to invite him out for a beer and listen as he talked ...

Published: 06/29/10

Women and Their Hair: A Love Story

By  Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
Women and Their Hair: A Love Story

"How can women think with all this hair?" That quote is from an inconsequential bit of fluff, "Switch," a 1991 movie starring Ellen Barkin. Plot: a sexist man gets murdered by three ex-girlfriends and is reincarnated as a woman, whereupon he gets a taste of his own medicine. Silly movie. Classic quote. How indeed? You can pass all the equality laws you want, but there is one arena in which men and women will forever diverge. Women are obsessed with hair. Men, on the other hand, tend to notice hair when it's so long they can no longer see. (Or when it disappears, but that's another story.) ...

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