By: MrDisgusting

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It's a slow news week, so I thought I'd share this crazy piece of news with you guys. While that BS piece of news floats around the web regarding THE WOLFMAN remake, an online paper in the UK is reporting that a real-life "werewolf boy" is losing his hair. Beyond the break you can read all about a new cure for hypertrichosis, along with a picture of one of the patients (yowsers!).



Pruthviraj Patil, 11, is one of just 50 people in the world with the rare genetic condition, called hypertrichosis.

Pruthviraj's family have tried a range of treatments - including homeopathy, traditional Indian Ayurvedic remedies and more recently laser surgery – but none has proved successful.
Now, following a worldwide appeal to doctors to help him find a permanent cure, scientists at Columbia University, in New York, believe they might have found one - by injecting the patient with testosterone.

Their research was filmed as part of a US television documentary called 'My Shocking Story: Real Wolf Kids'.

It followed the lives of a number of children living in Mumbai, India, including Pruthviraj, who were suffering with hypertrichosis.

The thick matted hair that covers Pruthviraj's face has caused him to be stared at and bullied throughout his childhood, and he rarely leaves his home village in India because of the cruelty of strangers.

When Pruthviraj was born villagers told his mother she had given birth to a God. Others thought he was a supernatural creature and a bad omen because of his unique appearance.

But despite his abnormal hair growth Pruthviraj, who is from the district of Sangli, near Bombay, is healthy, sporty and popular at school.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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	slitwristthoery 5:18pm, November 22, 2008 Thats great
	KingOfHorror 6:12pm, November 22, 2008 May have discovered cure for Baldness!
	zaglewiz 7:20pm, November 22, 2008 Thats amazing, now all we need is a cure for me to grow a beard at 26 and we'll be doing great.
	Jonny Horror 9:46pm, November 22, 2008 It's too bad that Pruthviraj is not a real Werewolf so he could fuck up all the stupid prick's that taunt and pick on him. That kind of shit really pisses me off. What's wrong with people in our world?
	Inga 10:25pm, November 22, 2008 That just does not seem to make sense. Women who have hirtuisum usually have an excess of Testostorone in they're bodies. That is what causes the excess hair....so how can a shot of the same hormone cause hair to fall out? I think its super if it works for him....but it makes no sense to me???
	juicecreeper 11:23pm, November 22, 2008 That's great. But what I wonder is if the introduction of the testosterone will create some other adverse side0effects. Speaking of medical cures, have any of you heard about this story: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204& amp;objectid=10543107 Pretty interesting if you ask me.
	HorrorFan101 4:02pm, November 23, 2008 Thats aweome. He's like Teen Wolf.
	horrorchick81 7:00am, November 24, 2008 i was just thinking the same thing horrorfan101.
	coldblood 5:19pm, November 25, 2008 He should play a werewolf in a movie. I'm not trying to be mean or anything. But his lifelong affliction could make him a star. He could turn that negative into a positive. I'm actually being serious here. Don't give me shit either, I didn't make him hairy.
	coldblood 5:19pm, November 25, 2008 He should play a werewolf in a movie. I'm not trying to be mean or anything. But his lifelong affliction could make him a star. He could turn that negative into a positive. I'm actually being serious here. Don't give me shit either, I didn't make him hairy.

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