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CRANSTON, R.I. / - USNewswire - The political pundits and campaign strategists are overlooking one key to candidate success in the 2008 presidential race, and the history proves it, said Dr. Robert Leonard, who is offering his 20 years of experience to the discussion. “Hair is the winning factor,” he said.

“The historical record comes down squarely against balding candidates and shows that America wants presidents with hair,” said Leonard, a hair loss expert.

Call it the hair factor. It’s an indicator more accurate than the Presidential Height Index. The only exceptions have been Eisenhower and Zachary Taylor.

“You have to go back to Dwight Eisenhower to find a bald president, and he had to win World War II just to stand a chance. It did help, however, that his opponent both times was also bald.” Dale McFeatters, syndicated columnist

Leonard is Founder and Chief Surgeon at Leonard Hair Transplant Associates of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. With 21 years of experience treating hair loss patients, he knows how the public treats bald people. He is offering some insights on the primary races.

• Read more: Can a balding candidate get elected President of the USA?

Newswise — Up to 73% of men with prostate cancer take nonprescription supplements and smaller numbers use diet, exercise, or both in the hope of improving their outcome. Most of these men also receive conventional therapy, but a few depend on lifestyle alone. The appeal of lifestyle therapy is obvious—but does it work? Experts don’t know, though research raises hope that it may have a beneficial impact, reports the July 2007 issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch.

All of the 93 men who signed up for the trial had newly diagnosed low- to moderate-grade cancers that were localized to the prostate gland. Half were randomly assigned to a lifestyle program, and half got no advice on lifestyle changes. The program that researchers created included four elements: An ultra-low-fat vegan diet; supplements, including soy, fish oil, vitamins E and C, and selenium; an exercise program of walking 30 minutes six days a week; and stress reduction that included yoga-based stretching, breathing, and meditation for an hour a day.

At the end of a year, a small but significant difference was evident. The average PSA in the intensive lifestyle group fell, whereas the average PSA in the untreated men rose. The participants in the lifestyle group also showed favorable cancer-fighting changes in their blood.

Much more research is needed before lifestyle therapy can be recommended clinically. But, the Harvard Men’s Health Watch notes, men with prostate cancer may choose not to wait until science catches up with their disease. And since the lifestyle program studied is good for general health, its elements will make a reasonable addition to any prostate cancer program.

DALLAS, /PRNewswire/ — On July 22, Shops & Salons Network will host The World’s Largest Hair Art and Fashion Show, at Reunion Arena. This event will introduce a new hair styling technique and trend called Hair Art, which is the art of cutting or shaving symbols and other images into hair. The rising popularity of Hair Art has attracted the Guinness World Records, which will be on site judging a competition for The Fastest Hair Art Hair Cut.

Companies large and small are beginning to use Hair Art to advertise their brands by shaving their logos into men’s and women’s hair, thus transforming them into walking, talking billboards. Mr. Ronnie Mac (Mr. Mac), producer of the event and owner of Shops and Salons NETWORK, is the leading practitioner of Hair Art and has coined the term “Company Cuts.” Interested companies have included Pepsi, Ford, Dairy Queen, FedEx, Albertson’s, and Nike to name a few. As a leader in the new trend, The World’s Largest Hair Art and Fashion Show will officially debut this trend in Dallas to expand local industry awareness and commercial adoption.

Producers are expecting a sellout crowd of 13 thousand to attend the show. Admission tickets range from $10 - $50. The show is open to the public. Mr. Mac and his production company have planned an exciting event:

- Approximately 50 local barbers and beauticians will showcase Hair Art advertising styles.
- Individual hair stylists will compete for a $10k prize for The Best Company Hair Art Cut.
- Guinness World Records will issue an award for The Fastest Hair Art Hair Cut
- Mr. Mac and his team of hair artists will demonstrate Hair Art design and cutting.
- Producer will give away a Ford F-150 truck

• Read more: Dallas to Host Hair Art Show

Cambridge, UK - Intercytex Group plc, the cell therapy company focused on aesthetic medicine and tissue repair, announces today a clinical breakthrough in regenerative medicine following the conclusion of a clinical trial in which laboratory-made living human skin has been fully and consistently integrated into the human body for the first time. ICX-SKN contrasts with all other living skin graft alternatives which biodegrade in situ after a matter of weeks.

In the trial - which is published in the July issue of Regenerative Medicine - a full-thickness skin sample was excised from the upper arm of six volunteers and replaced with Intercytex’ skin graft replacement product, ICX-SKN. After 28 days both visual and histological analysis showed that in all volunteers the ICX-SKN grafts were rapidly vascularised and overgrown with the hosts’ own cells, resulting in a fully integrated skin graft that had closed and healed the wound site.

ICX-SKN comprises a collagen-based matrix produced by the same skin cells - human fibroblasts - that are responsible for laying down the collagen in natural skin. The fibroblasts weave a collagen structure which mimics that found in skin and which shares many of the structural attributes of skin. Intercytex’ scientists believe that the combination of living human fibroblasts in a human fibroblast-produced matrix underpins the integration and acceptance of ICX-SKN by the host skin. To date, other living regenerative medicine skin constructs have degraded too quickly to act as skin grafts when implanted in the human body.

In certain wounds and burns the use of skin grafts taken from a different part of the patient’s own body is the optimal treatment to obtain wound closure. However, their use is avoided wherever possible because skin grafting itself is a painful and traumatic process that creates an additional wound. ICXSKN represents a potential alternative which could be of enormous benefit to patients and physicians.

• Read more: Intercytex announces world first in skin repair using laboratory-manufactured human skin

New York, NY (PRWEB) – Chosen for pioneering the revolutionary hair transplant technique known as Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation, Dr. Bernstein has been selected by a peer-review process from a pool of board-certified physicians who are given an anonymous and confidential opportunity to nominate outstanding doctors in various medical specialties and sub-specialties. This process is conducted by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.

These special annual issues of New York Magazine present the findings of Castle Connolly who also solicits nominations from hospital Presidents, Vice Presidents of Medical Affairs or the equivalent position and Chiefs of Service in Manhattan, Staten Island Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island, Rockland County, Westchester County, and parts of Connecticut and New Jersey. Twelve thousand forms are sent for each selection process.

The medical professionals are asked to nominate the best doctors in a particular field. New York Magazine published the opinions of nominators who took into account Dr. Bernstein’s education, residency, board certification, hospital appointment, disciplinary record and reputation for dealing with patients of his sub-specialty, surgical hair restoration.

Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. is a research and information company which publishes a variety of books that seek to guide patients on how to find the best medical care. The physicians included in NY Magazine are representative of the top 2 percent of New York area doctors. Dr. Bernstein is honored to be the only hair transplant physician listed for eight consecutive years.

Dr. Bernstein is the most widely published author on the subject of Follicular Unit Hair Transplantation, with over fifty articles, editorial reviews, books and textbook chapters. His landmark scientific papers are considered to be seminal works in the field of hair restoration surgery. In addition to a busy surgical practice, Dr. Bernstein teaches at Columbia University and lectures both nationally and internationally on the treatment of hair loss.

To get more on Dr Bernstein visit: http://www.hairtransplant.net/hair_transplant_doctors/Robert_Bernstein/ or http://www.bernsteinmedical.com/

EDITORS NOTE:  Although this study does not directly relate to hair loss,  there is a lot of data suggesting that omega-3 fatty acids have many health benefits and may help reduce the inflammation present in people suffering with hair loss.

Newswise — Increasing intake of the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA, found in popular fish-oil supplements, may protect against blindness resulting from abnormal blood vessel growth in the eye, according to a study published online by the journal Nature Medicine on June 24. The study was done in mice, but a clinical trial at Children’s Hospital Boston will soon begin testing the effects of omega-3 supplementation in premature babies, who are at risk for vision loss.

Abnormal vessel growth is the cause of retinopathy of prematurity, diabetic retinopathy in adults, and “wet” age-related macular degeneration, three leading causes of blindness. Retinopathy, affecting about 4 million diabetic patients and about 40,000 premature infants in the United States, is a two-step disease that begins with a loss of blood vessels in the retina (the nerve tissue at the back of the eye that sends visual signals to the brain). Because of the vessel loss, the retina becomes oxygen-starved and sends out alarm signals that spur new vessel growth. But the new vessels grow abnormally and are malformed, leaky and over-abundant. In the end stage of the disease, the abnormal vessels pull the retina away from its supporting layer, and this retinal detachment ultimately causes blindness.

The researchers, led by Lois Smith, MD, PhD, and Kip Connor, PhD, of Children’s Hospital Boston’s Department of Ophthalmology and Harvard Medical School, and John Paul SanGiovanni, ScD, of the National Eye Institute (NEI), National Institutes of Health, studied retinopathy in a mouse model, feeding the mice diets that emphasized either omega-3 fatty acids (comparable to a Japanese diet) or omega-6 fatty acids (comparable to a Western diet).

Mice on the omega-3 diet, rich in DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and its precursor EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), had less initial vessel loss in the retina than the omega-6-fed mice: the area with vessel loss was 40 to 50 percent smaller. As a result, the omega-3 group had a 40 to 50 percent decrease in pathological vessel growth.

• Read more: Can Blindness be Prevented Through Diet?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced new rules requiring that dietary supplements are to be tested to ensure that they are produced in a quality manner, do not contain contaminants or impurities, and are accurately labeled.   These standards are known as good manufacturing practices (cGMP) and are already used in food manufacturing.

“This rule helps to ensure the quality of dietary supplements so that consumers can be confident that the products they purchase contain what is on the label,” said Commissioner of Food and Drugs Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D. “In addition, as a result of recent amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, by the end of the year, industry will be required to report all serious dietary supplement related adverse events to FDA.”

The regulations establish the cGMP needed to ensure quality throughout the manufacturing, packaging, labeling, and storing of dietary supplements. The final rule includes requirements for establishing quality control procedures, designing and constructing manufacturing plants, and testing ingredients and the finished product. It also includes requirements for recordkeeping and handling consumer product complaints.

“The final rule will help ensure that dietary supplements are manufactured with controls that result in a consistent product free of contamination, with accurate labeling,” said Robert E. Brackett, Ph.D., director of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

• Read more: FDA issues new dietary supplements rule