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This review examines existing evidence on the efficacy and safety of gender affirming hormone therapy in relation to Gender Affirmation Surgery, but reports no new clinical results.

This essay critically analyzes photographic narratives of breast cancer, particularly Catherine Lord's and Lynn Kohlman's works, to explore how these narratives deepen understanding of women's technologized bodies and offer discursive resistance and audience engagement.

This study emphasizes the necessity of confirming elevated testosterone levels detected by immunoassay with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectroscopy before pursuing more complex diagnostic evaluations.

This paper reviews deceptive magazine advertising practices, including editors' insights and efforts by industry and government to reduce such ads, and recommends strategies for their elimination.

This study found that neonatal finasteride and allopregnanolone alterations were associated with anxiety-related behavior changes and impaired aversive learning in adult rats, potentially due to GABA(A) receptor system changes in the hippocampus.

In this study, increased corticosterone from chronic stress prolonged hair follicle stem cell quiescence in mice, inhibiting regeneration, but restoring Gas6 expression overcame this inhibition.

This study found that social isolation in rats enhanced the effects of ethanol on certain brain steroids, increased GABAA receptor subunits, and amplified ethanol's inhibitory effects on seizures.

This study found that septoplasty simulation in rats led to decreased exploratory behavior and anxiety, suggesting a link between postoperative stress and changes in the hippocampal region.

This article recounts a series of "hair burning syncope" cases in black girls experiencing seizures during hair grooming with hot irons, without presenting new research findings.

This case report highlights the adverse effects of unmonitored bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, emphasizing the need for patient education about its safety and efficacy compared to FDA-regulated hormones.

This review examines the science and technology behind temporary and permanent hair straightening, discussing the processes, potential advancements, and considerations for reducing adverse effects, but does not report new research findings.

This review discusses the portrayal and enforcement of idealized masculinities in men's self-improvement advertising and reports no new empirical results.

This review identifies significant variability in insurance coverage for gender-affirming surgeries in the US, affecting equitable access to care for transgender individuals and suggesting a need for health policy reforms.

This study found that a positive feedback loop involving RHD2-derived ROS and Ca2+ influx maintains active growth sites in Arabidopsis root hair cells, influencing cell shape.

In this study, structural and functional brain abnormalities specific to visuospatial and somatosensory processing networks were observed in patients with anorexia nervosa, highlighting a critical role for the precuneus.

This study reported that online misinformation about alopecia is widespread, with myths including incorrect causes, criticism of conventional treatments, and promotion of unproven "natural" remedies, which could negatively affect patient outcomes.

In this study, researchers found that both direct and witnessed trauma in mice are associated with reduced levels of the neurosteroid allopregnanolone, potentially influencing PTSD outcomes, and that treatment with synthetic neurosteroids may mitigate fear responses linked to observed trauma.

This study observed a decline in investigations, prosecutions, and convictions for misleading advertising in Canada, suggesting Industry Canada's diminished role necessitates new strategies to address this issue.

This editorial in the Journal of Aesthetic Nursing discusses the rise in unethical practices in the medical aesthetics field, particularly by non-health professionals offering high-level cosmetic procedures, and calls for experienced practitioners to voice their concerns in person to influence regulatory practices.

This study found that using an argon gas-based system for intralesional cryotherapy significantly reduced keloid scar volume, improved scar quality, and resulted in low recurrence rates after 12 months.

This review examines recent breast cancer memoirs and photographic narratives, highlighting how they address topics like environmental carcinogens and genetic testing while reshaping traditional testimonial and memorial narratives.

This case report describes a 45-year-old man with a pituitary macroadenoma whose symptoms and tumor size improved significantly after one month of treatment with cabergoline.

This narrative account, reported by C&EN, describes how Houston's use of a hormone-related hair loss treatment may have triggered unexpected panic attacks, contributing to ongoing mental health challenges, and highlights broader issues with mental health disorders that resist traditional treatments.

This review refutes several myths about testosterone therapy in women and suggests that testosterone is beneficial for both physical and mental health, though its safety in women continues to be researched.

This study found that indirect treatment with cold atmospheric plasma showed promise for improving androgenetic alopecia in patients, laying the groundwork for longer trials to assess its efficacy.

This article reviews nonscarring and scarring hair loss conditions that may mimic androgenetic alopecia, reporting no new clinical results and highlighting the need for accurate diagnosis in hair restoration surgery.

This review re-examines hair blowouts as a material science process, where water acts as a plasticizer altering keratin's glass-transition temperature, allowing for temporary hair shaping through a moisture-induced matrix state change under heat and tension.

This case study documents a potential relationship between venlafaxine use and the onset of paranoia, which resolved upon discontinuation and recurred when reintroduced.

This study reports that the candle flame technique "velaterapia," popular in Brazil for addressing split ends, can damage hair fibers due to bubble formation at high temperatures, despite thermal protectors providing some cuticle protection.