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Radio 4,10 Sep 2008,30 mins

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Dr Mark Porter explores health issues of the day. He looks at common problems of hair, from greying to dandruff and baldness. He reports on new genetic studies of the fungus that causes dandruff and on why we lose the colour in our hair as we age. He also explores why chemotherapy changes the structure of hair.

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