内容摘要：centers and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors. Until then, patients can increase their physical activity after treatment, knowing they are doing their part to prevent cancer from coming back.

centers and insurance plans should consider making exercise coaching a new standard of care for colon cancer survivors. Until then, patients can increase their physical activity after treatment, knowing they are doing their part to prevent cancer from coming back.

Dajiah Blackshear, a natural hair stylist who specializes in extensions, washes a client’s wig during an installation service, Monday, May 5, 2025, at her salon suite in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)The store owner said he may have to stop selling that brand of hair because it went up so much. Similarly, some wholesale hair stores have seen higher costs or are expecting them in the coming weeks. Even the typical $6 to $10 cost of a pack of synthetic hair has crept up.

Blackshear doesn’t want clients to bring hair because she likes to vet the quality. But if expenses continue to mount, she may have to raise her prices.“It’s going to be extremely difficult,” she said, especially for clients who are “having to make those hard decisions, between ‘do I get my hair done or do I pay my bills?’”Janice Lowe, who runs 5 Starr Salon in a lower-income neighborhood southeast of Atlanta, has started asking clients to bring hair and is unable to purchase certain products.

“I’m falling behind on my obligations,” she said.Consultants vary on how much prices will rise, when they’ll go up and for how long — and the full harm to stylists and consumers could be months away.

The global Black hair care industry was worth about $3.2 billion in 2023, according to

, and Black women spend six times more on hair care than other ethnicities.Members of a team dance as they celebrating after winning a traditional bull race competition, in Malal, a village of Attock district, in Pakistan, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

A jockey, center, looses the control on a pair of bull during a traditional bull race competition, in Malal, a village of Attock district, in Pakistan, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)A jockey, center, looses the control on a pair of bull during a traditional bull race competition, in Malal, a village of Attock district, in Pakistan, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Members of a team blow currency notes in the air as they celebrating after winning a traditional bull race competition, in Malal, a village of Attock district, in Pakistan, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)Members of a team blow currency notes in the air as they celebrating after winning a traditional bull race competition, in Malal, a village of Attock district, in Pakistan, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)