MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'follicles'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:49:40 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3790937&cid=t_120308_160_f&fid=36189&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skinmdblog.com%2F234%2Fthe-skinny-on-dermatology-a-few-common-medical-procedures%2F When we think “dermatologist”, we may only think about a specialist who consults her patients on facial skin problems, like acne. But the dermatologist provides a wide array of services having to do with skin, scalp, hair, and nails,  and performs various medical procedures. Here are a few of the most popular. 1. Hair transplantation When a patient is confronting the often debilitating prospect of hair loss, dermatologists may opt to perform a cosmetic procedure known as hair transplantation. The way it works is that the dermatologist will remove skin containing hair follicles and surgically attach it to skin lacking these follicles. This procedure is mostly used to treat male pattern baldness, but can be used in other instances, like, for example, with eyebrows, eyelashes, an... Skin MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3790937 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:36:53 +0100 3790937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3742248&cid=t_120308_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fpatient-stories-about-hair-loss%2F2010.07.10 The New York Times has a series called “Patient Voices” which gives insights from the patients with the disease, physical and emotional changes in their lives, and accommodations made. The most recent series is on patients with alopecia (hair loss). “The Voices of Alopecia” by Tara Parker-Pope (July 6, 2010): This week, Patient Voices explores alopecia, an autoimmune disease that leads to a few bald patches to the loss of every hair on a person’s body. To hear what it’s like to live with alopecia, listen to the Patient Voices audio slideshow that features adults, children and their parents who are coping with the condition. Listen to these seven people tell what it’s like to live with alopecia: - Matt Kelly, 43, lost his hair at age 38 over a 6 week time... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3742248 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:00:00 +0100 3742248 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1336335&cid=t_120308_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F260405165%2F “Engineering blood vessels for bypass surgery, promoting the formation of new blood vessels or regenerating new skin tissue using stem cells obtained from the most accessible source — hair follicles — is a real possibility,” said Stelios T. Andreadis, Ph.D., co-author of the paper in Cardiovascular Research and associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Researchers in the past have shown that there are stem cells in hair follicles but the newest study shows that the hair contains the smooth muscle that can regrow vasculature. Better yet, the engineered blood vessels prepared with smooth muscle progenitor cells from the hair follicles were capable of dilating and constricting whic... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1336335 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:19:35 +0100 1336335 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=629107&cid=t_120308_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F22%2Fa-theory-to-furrow-your-brow-over%2F Filed under: Type 2, ResearchThe J.F.K. assassination. The whereabouts of Jimmy Hoffa. Causes of major disease. What do all three have in common? Questionable theories to explain each of them. Leaving my own questionable theories out on the first two, I came across a theory on the third one -- related to a person's risk for developing diabetes. While your eyes may be the window to your soul, your eyebrows apparently are the window to your health. That's because German scientists recently concluded that eyebrow color may tell of a person's risk of diabetes. After examining the blood glucose levels of 100 men with gray hair, they found that those of them who had dark eyebrows, 76 percent had diabetes. This was compared against the mere 18 percent of men with gray eyebrows who had diabetes. ... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=629107 Tue, 22 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 629107