He had been trying to arrange to come over to visit us for several months, but finally in the 2nd week of June 2007 we were delighted to welcome Pat Hennessey when he visited our clinic in Manchester. Pat as many of you know is the owner and publisher of the ‘Hair Transplant Network’ American […]

Shaun Williamson (aka Barry from Eastenders) is currently appearing on ‘Comic Relief Does Fame Academy’ on BBC1. The show is billed as the ‘ultimate celebrity singing contest’. It is on BBC1 every evening this week at 7 pm and they are now down to the last 6 singing celebrity students. Shaun is one of the […]

Celebrity entrepreneur, Duncan Bannatyne OBE, is best known as the hard to please judge on BBC2′s Dragon’s Den program about budding entrepreneurs pitching for investment money in their business ideas. He recently appeared on popular ITV show ‘Fortune Million Pound Giveaway’.  This is where ordinary people ask the millionaires panel for money for a variety […]

Dr Noela Ionescu, a plastic surgeon from Bucharest, was one of the organisers of the 2nd International Congress of the Romanian Association of Plastic Surgeons in Sinaia, Romania at the end of October, 2006. She is working with Professor Dr Ioan Lascar of Bucharest. She met Dr Bessam Farjo a few years ago in London […]

At the 14th annual conference of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) in San Diego last October, Dr Bessam Farjo was elected as the society’s new Vice-President for a term of one year. He was the nominated by the board of governors and endorsed by the general membership on Friday October 19th, 2006.

The 14th annual conference of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) took place in San Diego, California on October 18-22, 2006. It was attended by the 2ndlargest number of delegates in the ISHRS history and witnessed the largest ever number of new applications for memberships in a single year. (L to R) Dr […]

SIR BOBBY CHARLTON tried a comb–over, Silvio Berlusconi had transplants and Sir Elton John dons lurid toupees. Now the government, perhaps pitching for the votes of millions of middle-aged men with thinning pates, is to invest £1.9m of taxpayers’ money in research to develop an effective baldness treatment. The remedy is being backed by Lord […]

​Both Drs Farjo were made Fellows of the Institute of Trichologists (est 1902) for their past and on-going contributions to the field of trichology, hair loss and hair restoration medicine, surgery and research. In the case of Dr Bessam Farjo, also for his continuing service to the IoT as Board Governor. The fellowship is an […]

​Hot on the heels of the breaking news about the government’s £2m grant for the hair cell therapy (multiplication) trials, ITV cameras and crew paid a visit to the Farjo Hair Institute on October 8th2006, where the trials are taking place. They interviewed Dr Nilofer Farjo and filmed her demonstrating how the trial is done […]