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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288"><H2>Mixed messages</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288"><H3> Medical myths</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288"><P id="article_remark">Sometimes even doctors are duped, say <B>Rachel C Vreeman</B> and <B>Aaron<SUP> </SUP>E Carroll</B><SUP> </SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; 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background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Hair and fingernails continue to<SUP> </SUP>grow after death<SUP> </SUP> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster,<SUP> </SUP>darker, or coarser<SUP> </SUP> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight<SUP> </SUP> </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288"><P> We used Medline and Google to search for evidence to support<SUP> </SUP>or refute each of these claims. 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