NewMissing Records Detection: flags every visit, provider, and date missing from the file. See how →
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Hair relaxer cases

20 years of relaxer use. The case needs every year on paper.

Medrecords AI lines up the product use with the medical file: salons, brands and how often, then the gynecologic history, the workup, the diagnosis and every other risk factor the chart records. Every entry links to its page. Causation stays with your experts.

  • HIPAA, under a BAA
  • SOC 2
  • 100 pages a minute
  • First case is free on us
1 plaintiff, use to diagnosistap a point
Product use
Medical
10 May 2016GynecologyMedical

Irregular periods. Body mass index 31.

p. 20other risk factor
Illustrative case. The plaintiff, products, dates and pages are fictional. The years before 2021 are drawn narrower. The study date is real.
4times a year

Use more often than this counted as frequent in the Sister Study, which linked it to more than twice the risk of uterine cancer.

Chang et al., JNCI, Oct 2022
3060MDL

The federal hair relaxer litigation, centralized in the Northern District of Illinois.

JPML, MDL No. 3060
1judge

Federal cases that share questions of fact can be sent to 1 court for pretrial proceedings.

28 U.S.C. §1407
100pages a minute

How fast Medrecords AI reads the file.

Medrecords AI
Where hair relaxer cases turn

6 places the defense looks first. The chronology gets you there before they do.

Product use runs for decades and is rarely written down in a medical chart. These are the points where the case gets decided, each flagged with its page.

Product use

Brands and years

Every brand, salon and year of use from receipts, photos, salon records and questionnaires, side by side.

product named
Product use

How often

Use frequency from every source, so it can be set against the study's definition of frequent use.

use pattern
Medical

The first symptoms

The first note of bleeding, pain or an abnormal scan, dated and quoted.

symptom onset
Medical

The diagnosis

Pathology, type and stage, quoted as written, with the surgery that followed.

cited
Medical

Every other risk factor

Weight, hormone therapy, family history and genetic results the chart records, each with its page.

other risk factor
Both

The records that never arrived

The pathology report, the genetic testing, the salon records a questionnaire mentions. Listed with the page that points to each one.

missing-records list
Sample output

What comes back: decades of use and the diagnosis on 1 timeline, every line cited.

DateSourceFindingPageFlag
1 Mar 2004Salon recordsRelaxer every 6 to 8 weeks.p. 3use pattern
1 Jun 2012Plaintiff questionnaireSwitched to a home relaxer kit. Brand named.p. 6product named
1 Jan 2021ReceiptsHome kits bought every 2 months.p. 9cited
1 Nov 2022Plaintiff questionnaireStopped after the study made the news.p. 7exposure end
Fictional case built for this page. Real output carries the same columns, with every page linked to the source PDF.
How it works

Send the file. Get 1 timeline back.

What you send

  • Receipts, photos, salon records and questionnaires
  • Gynecology and oncology records
  • Pathology and genetic testing reports
  • Pharmacy records for hormone use
  • Any format: PDFs, scans, faxes, phone photos

What you get

  • Product use by brand and year, with pages
  • The gynecologic history and the diagnosis in order
  • Every other risk factor the chart records
  • Fact sheet answers drafted from the record
  • A list of records the file refers to but does not contain

We lay out the record. Your experts give the causation opinion.

We assemble and cite the product use, the medical course and the other risk factors. We do not say relaxers cause cancer, that they caused this plaintiff's cancer, or which brand is responsible. Those belong to your retained experts.

HIPAA, under a signed BAAEvery file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement.
SOC 2Encryption in transit and at rest, and PHI access logging on every event.
Never trains a modelYour records never train any AI model, ours or anyone else’s.
Deleted after deliveryFiles are deleted 30 days after delivery, with an audit log of every access.
Questions

Hair relaxer case review, answered.

How do you prove years of product use?

We collect every receipt, photo, salon record and questionnaire answer that shows use, with pages and dates, and flag the years with no proof.

Do you cover uterine, endometrial and ovarian cancer cases?

Yes. The chronology follows whatever diagnosis the records show, with the pathology quoted as written.

Can you screen a large intake?

Yes. The same fields are pulled for every claimant: brands, years, frequency, diagnosis, date and other risk factors, ready for case selection and fact sheets.

Do you retrieve records from providers?

No. Medrecords AI does not retrieve records from providers or facilities. You bring the records you already have, and review starts in minutes from upload.

Related case types

Send us 1 hair relaxer case. The first case is free on us.

Book a short demo. After it we open trial access on one of your own cases, the first one free on us, with the chronology back page-cited.

Sources

Every rule, regulation, statute and published standard named on this page is linked below to the text the body that issues it puts out, read on the date shown. Where a standard is sold rather than published, the link goes to its publisher's page for it. A few rules are named without a link, because no source we could read and confirm publishes them.