Human Hair Studies. 1. General Considerations of Hair Individualization and Its Forensic Importance

Human Hair Studies: General Considerations of Hair Individualization and Its Forensic Importance

Human Hair Studies: III. Refractive Index of Crown Hair

Elemental Composition of Hair and its Role in Forensic Identification

Hair is among most common types of evidence reported in criminal investigations. Throughout the stages of usual hair-growth parameters, hairs goes through a continuous loss from every individual, and due to this loss these hairs may be transferred from one individual to another in any criminal commotion [1]. Hair have gained a wide interest in its examination for various fields counting taxonom...

Frequency of Sodium Valproate-Induced Hair Loss and Curly Hair

Sodium valproate has been widely used by man as an antiepileptic drug. Hair loss and curly hair is a rare side effect of sodium valproate. We have conducted a prospective clinical study in the Department of Neurology in Shafa Hospital, Kerman, Iran for ten years (1994-2004). All 211 epileptic patients in our study were given sodium valproate as a single drug treatment. During the course of ther...

Is Hair Reliable Forensic Evidence?

In 2009, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences published a report on the status of forensic science, identifying what they found to be disciplines of forensic science that lacked appropriate scientific basis. Those areas of forensic science, including fingerprints, firearms examination, crime scene reconstruction, bloodstain pattern interpretation, hair comparisons, odontology, and others, were...