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Scientists Stumble Upon Possible Breakthrough in Treating Baldness

By Hugh CollinsFeb 17th 2011 – 12:02PM
ABCNews.com

ABCNews.com

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,...

New Miss Delaware Says Bald Is Beautiful

By Mara GayJun 28th 2010 – 10:03AM
CBS

CBS

(June 28) -- Like many beauty queens, Kayla Martell is beautiful, blue-eyed and out to support a good cause. Martell, the newly crowned Miss Delaware 2010, also is completely bald. The 21-year-old pageant winner suffers from alopecia areata, a condition that causes hair loss and afflicts 4.7 million Americans, according...

Background on alopecia

Alopecia (, from Classical Greek ἀλώπηξ, alōpēx) means loss of hair from the head or body.

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