If you use heated tools, colour your hair or get chemical treatments, you’ll know that the trade-off is some level of damage. And as most of us will know, this can (and likely will) present as ...

One spring day in March, she went for an X-ray at a large hospital in San Francisco ... getting used to the fact that she didn't have any hair. It made her incredibly self-conscious.

FOLLOWING Wilhelm Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895, doctors around the world turned their primitive X-ray machines on everything ... effect: it made hair fall out.