Conference on hair draws 450 experts
18 July 2011
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You might have thought hair was the exclusive domain of beauty salons, but a recent conference on the subject drew hundreds of top-brass scientists.
More than 450 dermatologists and non-physician scientists gathered in Jerusalem recently for the four-day 15th Annual Meeting of the European Hair Research Society (EHRS).
Prof. Abraham Zlotogorski, who presided over the event, called it “the Western world’s largest medical and scientific conference on hair to date.” Zlotogorski is director of the hair clinic at Hadassah University Medical Center and director of the hospital’s Center for Genetic Diseases of Skin and Hair.
Hair may seem simple, (think rinse, shampoo, rinse) but is in reality quite complex. “There are few organs that undergo such renewal, with cells dying and then growing again,” Zlotogorski said, adding that the last two decades have seen a rise in hair research findings.
The average person has five million hairs spread over the entire surface of the body, except for the lips, palms and the soles of the feet.
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Read more at The Jerusalem Post.
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