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...there any medicines that people commonly take that are factor in hair loss? Birth control pills are commonly a cause of hair loss. Many psychiatric drugs have hair loss [side effects]. Prozac has that as a side effect. Almost every one of them, if you read the literature. Unfortunately, the amount of ignorance among physicians in dealing with hair loss is massive, so there are very few doctors who really understand the process and they tend to evade the questions that are posed to them...
...patients like Sam and Emma Melton, that ride carries with it the possibility of being free of the insulin pumps and injections they endure to keep their blood sugar under control. "I definitely think about how my life would be different if there is a cure," says Sam. His father is keenly aware that the ability of stem cells and reprogramming science to provide that cure is far from guaranteed. But his initial confidence in the power of the technology hasn't waned. "Everything we learned about stem cells tells us this was a really powerful approach," he says...
...help stabilize its neighbor, Ethiopia pulled its troops out of Mogadishu on Jan. 26. Within hours, Islamic militants occupied the capital. The Somali government agreed to give moderate Islamists increased parliamentary representation and is working to elect a new President. But hard-line insurgents declared the changes invalid, took control of the city and have begun pushing into outlying areas...
...stop the alarming growth in population. The lower birthrate is critical to a nation like Iran as its economy evolves. About 7,000 women went door-to-door in Tehran and talked to mothers about the benefits of smaller families, informed them of the different types of birth control and handed out condoms and pills. "I must give credit to Iran's religious leaders for a pragmatic and creative approach to family-planning," says Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Ahad, an Egyptian who is head of the United Nations Population Fund in Iran...
...population drain that plagues much of farm country, have gotten too small and too poor to attract pastors. No pastor means no church. And losing one's church--well, Porter has a vivid memory of that, living as she does in an area where abandoned buildings are control-burned for safety. The flames were taller than a man, she remembers. "In plain English," she says, "it looked like hell...