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Simple supplement may help hair-pulling compulsion

(BBC) UPDATED 2009-07-07
Researchers say a simple supplement may help treat a compulsive disorder called trichotillomania that causes sufferers to tear out their hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, sometimes to the point of baldness. For their study, scientists recruited 50 people with trichotillomania and gave half of them a pill containing the amino acid N-acetylcysteine and half a placebo. After 12 weeks, 56 percent of patients who had taken the N-acetylcysteine were considered to be "much or very much improved," compared with 16 percent taking placebo.  Read full story >
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