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Randy Santmann was in his early 20s and was losing his hair.

Like millions of other men suffering hair loss, he got a prescription for the drug Propecia.

Three years later in 2008, Santmann, just 22, killed himself. His Montgomery family says Propecia is to blame.

“Don’t take this drug. It’s just like playing Russian roulette. It’s not worth it,” his father, John, said Monday following a protest outside the Whitehouse Station headquarters of the designer drug’s manufacturer, Merck.

The demonstration was organized by Las Vegas resident Kevin Malley, 30, who says he has been on a hunger strike since May 13, camped near the company’s headquarters.

Malley is the editor of propeciahelp.com, a website devoted to raising awareness about the side effects of finasteride, the drug that constitutes Merck’s Propecia as well as the company’s prostate medication Proscar.

The most devastating of the side effects include erectile and sexual dysfunctions, which for some men continue long after they stop taking the medication.

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Dr. Robert Leonard, chief surgeon and founder of Leonard Hair Transplant Associates, with an office in Braintree, has been selected to present at the annual DHI Academy Masters Meeting in Athens, Greece, on June 2nd. Dr. Leonard, an internationally recognized hair restoration expert, will deliver a presentation titled “Different Extraction Tools: NeoGraft versus Manual Punch Techniques."

NeoGraft™ is a revolutionary, automated surgical technique which provides patients with a more efficient, less traumatic harvest of donor hair. Dr. Leonard was the first hair restoration surgeon in New England to begin using NeoGraft™, and has more experience with NeoGraft™ than any other surgeon in this region.

The Annual DHI Academy Masters Meeting is an international conference where the latest developments and techniques in Direct Hair Implantation are presented, analyzed and discussed. The conference will take place from May 30th to June 2nd.

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A 30-year-old Las Vegas man who says his life was ruined after taking the hair-loss drug Propecia has launched a hunger strike at the corporate headquarters of the drug’s maker -- pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. located in Whitehouse Station, N.J.

Kevin Malley, a former public-health researcher from Las Vegas, flew to New Jersey from his hometown on May 10 and ceased eating on May 13 in protest of Merck’s failure to acknowledge Propecia's role in causing persistent and devastating male sexual side effects even after taking the drug has been discontinued.

Malley says he plans to continue going without food indefinitely while camped across from the mammoth company’s headquarters. He is hoping his hunger strike will call attention to Propecia’s devastating side effects as many men who are taking the drug and doctors who are still prescribing it have no idea that a drug prescribed for hair growth can wreak such havoc within the body.

"I want Merck to see how their drug is destroying lives — and know that I'm just one of thousands of victims suffering across the globe," said Malley, who was prescribed Propecia last year by his doctor, and took the controversial medication for five months until suffering complete erectile dysfunction and other debilitating sexual side effects.

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A hair restoration procedure, promoted internationally by former cricketing ace Shane Warne, was put in the dock today by a hair loss victim and found wanting by a judge.

Judge Raymond Groarke held it would have been ridiculous for garage worker Jeremy Keogh to have believed that having a wig or membrane glued to his head would have the effect of causing his hair to re-grow.

He said Keogh (aged 29) of St Killian’s Crescent, Staplestown Road, Co Carlow, had succeeded however in convincing the court he had not been provided with what he thought he had purchased at Advanced Hair Studios, Dublin, in March 2009.

Judge Groarke said the terminology and words used in a contract for the “strand by strand” hair procedure were undoubtedly intentionally deceptive and misleading and by no means clear as to what a purchaser was getting when they signed the agreement.

He told barrister John P. Kehoe, counsel for Mr Keogh, that the wording of the contract left Advanced Hair Studios, of Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin, open to any amount of claims.

In the judge’s view a potential customer should be given a video and documentation which set out in the simplest of terms and the utmost clarity what exactly it was that the customer was purchasing.

Judge Groarke said this had not been done and Mr Keogh had paid €3,600 for what was a hair piece.

“People who seek treatment of this nature might potentially be somewhat vulnerable and to leave the matter beyond doubt documentation in simple terms should be furnished to them,” he said.

Referring to evidence by Mr Keogh that he had been assured his hair would re-grow if a membrane or wig was glued to his scalp, Judge Groarke said he did not believe that Mr Keogh believed he was getting something that did not exist and never did exist.

“Mr Keogh was getting a hair piece and he knew he was getting a hair piece or hair pieces but I am satisfied he did not get what he felt he was purchasing,” the judge said.

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The Sun is urgently looking for two case studies on hair loss. One is a woman who feels her hair loss was linked to stress caused by the recession, the second a man who feels his hair loss was linked to stress generally.

Great payment for taking part, and happy to mention any helpful organisations/forums.

Please can you email me ASAP at dianaappleyard@aol.com and ideally attach a photo of yourself when you were going through your hair loss situation.

Thanks so much, Diana Appleyard, The Sun.

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Bill Rancic, an American entrepreneur, motivational speaker and star of the hit reality show, Giuliana & Bill, has teamed up with ROGAINE® to serve as the brand's first-ever "Growth Coach®." In this new role, Rancic, an avid user of Men's ROGAINE® Unscented Foam, the #1 dermatologist recommended brand for hair regrowth, will share his personal story to help empower men to take control of their hair loss and build confidence from the board room to the bedroom.

Rancic, who first came onto the national scene when he was hired by Donald Trump as the winner of the first season of The Apprentice, will lend his credibility to inspire men facing real issues to "Grow Their Game" and stand up to whatever life throws their way. Specifically, he will share his own ROGAINE® success story and offer advice through Facebook, Twitter, an upcoming contest and various other online channels. Rancic will also be featured in ROGAINE® advertorials and print advertising in top men's publications.

"I look forward to sharing my own story, along with tips that men can use to gain confidence in their everyday lives," says Rancic. "One in four men are affected by hereditary hair loss, so I took control of the situation and started using Men's ROGAINE® Unscented Foam. There's definitely been a positive change in my hair since I started using the product, so I'll let you be the judge," he says. "There's no reason to be embarrassed about hair loss; face it and then grab ROGAINE®."

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In hew new book “101 Ways to Avoid Hair Loss: For Persons with Relaxed, Natural, and Afro-Caribbean Hair” (published by AuthorHouse) author and veteran hairdresser Mary Juliana Brice offers the knowledge she has built about preserving hair.

While the book is seemingly aimed at the hair issues of persons living in the Caribbean, it is not meant to focus only on the Caribbean population. “Our people have migrated to all parts of the world,” Brice says, “and all persons with ‘black Afro hair’, whether they have it relaxed, permed, weaved, braided or natural will find solutions from it for hair loss.”

An excerpt from “101 Ways to Avoid Hair Loss”:

“The combination of sun, sea and chlorine can have a tremendous bleaching effect on the hair. A day tour on a boat, with sea bathing and sun bathing, can produce dramatic changes in hair colour. The resulting ‘sun-kissed hair’, though lovely and alluring, can become dry, brittle, and prone to breakage.”

Brice is certain of the appeal her book answers. “There is a tremendous increase in hair products and styles that are focused on our Afro-American, African, and Afro-Caribbean hair textures,” she says. That increase, she believes, is driving an epidemic of poor hair care, as users increase the incidence and abuse of hair-care products.

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Bald is beautiful. MGA Entertainment Canada will launch a new range of hairless Bratz® dolls this summer at Toys"R"Us, Canada to support children dealing with hair loss due to illnesses such as cancer and alopecia, donating a portion of every sale to Starlight Children's Foundation.

Under the banner True Hope Bratz®, MGA will release hairless versions of its hit dolls Cloe™, Yasmin™ and Cameron™, who will each come with one hat, a second outfit and a beaded bracelet. The True Hope Bratz collection will be available for pre-sale online exclusively at Toysrus.ca from June 1 to mid-July, and will be available at all Toys"R"Us stores in Canada in mid-July.

MGA and Toys"R"Us, Canada will each donate $1 to Starlight Children's Foundation for every True Hope Bratz doll sold online and in stores, in an effort to back the Canadian charity's ongoing support of children with life-threatening illnesses like cancer or chronic diseases like alopecia that cause hair loss.

The announcement comes amidst a growing social media movement that calls for toymakers to create hairless dolls to emotionally comfort young girls and boys who suffer from, or have watched a family member suffer from, hair loss due to cancer treatments and other conditions.

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England's wig-making industry "has almost died", according to some of its most experienced figures.

But it is not the likes of Wayne Rooney and Louis Walsh turning to hair transplant surgery that has brought their traditional craft to its knees.

Instead the cause is high labour costs and competition from China that some in the industry say they simply cannot compete with.

George Theurer, chairman of the wig suppliers group at the UK's Hairdressing and Beauty Suppliers Association (HBSA), said: "Labour costs are much lower in China, the quality of what they produce is excellent and cheaper than what we can produce.

"There's a sad inevitability about it all."

Of the 25 wig suppliers in the HBSA most now concentrate almost entirely on supplying wigs made overseas. Only two still produce wigs from scratch.

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Well-known hair restoration company Clive Hair Clinics is being challenged by competitor SRS Hair Clinics over advertising claims.

SRS director C Sidhu made a raft of complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority's complaints board about Clive Clinics' website, television, yellow pages, billboards and newspaper advertisements.

In dealing with issues it probably would have preferred not to rule on, the ASA board partially upheld some of SRS's complaints relating to statements made on Clive's website, but did not uphold those about its other advertisements.

The complaints related to statements by Clive such as: "...in the long term, genetic predispositions towards hair loss can be averted".

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