Scalp

How to avoid 'hat hair'

2011-07-24 00:00:00

The best protection against skin cancer of the scalp is a hat, but it's tricky to wear one without collateral damage to your hairstyle. Caile Noble, hairstylist at Serge Normant at John Frieda Salon, offers tips on how to banish hat hair. Long and...

How to protect the scalp from skin cancer

2011-07-24 00:00:00

As summer heats up, we've learned to slather SPF 15 or higher all over our bodies and faces in an effort to prevent sun damage and skin cancer. We've also been told to recite our ABCs when checking for unusual moles: asymmetry, border irregularity and...

Sun protection, from the top of your head

2011-07-23 16:32:14

Your Stylist: Repairing hair from the summer heat

2011-08-22 16:32:15

'Real Housewives of New Jersey' reunion, Part 2: Hair pulling, hugs and handshakes

2010-09-07 16:35:37

Art review: 'Richard Hawkins: Third Mind' at the UCLA Hammer Museum

2011-02-21 16:33:03

Black 15 in 1, a hair-care product that claims to do everything for everyone

2010-12-16 16:32:12

'Apparition & Late Fictions' by Thomas Lynch

2010-02-14 00:00:00

Apparitions & Late Fictions A Novella and Stories Thomas Lynch W.W. Norton: 216 pp., $24.95 "Stuffing the open cranium with cotton, fitting the skullcap back in place and easing the scalp back over the skull, thereby restoring the facial contours,...

4-year-old Santa Clarita boy severely bitten bit by pit bull

2010-06-13 16:34:48

When it comes time to kill

2008-04-27 00:00:00

One in a series of articles about three teenagers and their wartime enlistment in the Marines. In the nine months after he graduated from high school, Lance Cpl. Daryl Crookston was trained to close and kill. The proper pursuit of the enemy was pounded...

Big hair makes a comeback

2008-06-22 00:00:00

JUST when you thought all '80s fashion revivals had run their course, big hair is back. You only have to look at Angelina Jolie on the cover of this month's Vanity Fair and Sarah Jessica Parker in the "Sex and the City" movie poster to see that the...

Pain, gratitude and a long fight back

2007-04-30 00:00:00

His halo was a cage, and all Johan Otter could do was stare out through the carbon graphite rods that pinned his head in place. If he slept, he dreamed, and the dreams bordered on nightmares. He lay in a passageway somewhere between a gym and a locker...

scalp treatments

2011-07-22 14:37:11

MIDN 1/C Terrance Leonard demonstrates how to place the head cover known as a "dixie cup" on the scalp .

2011-06-30 00:00:00

George Costanza ("Seinfeld's" Jason Alexander) knew a thing or two about male pattern baldness. Scientists are learning more about the changes that go on in the scalp when men lose their hair.

2011-01-04 18:47:23