Archive for the 'Baldness' Category
Some men — think Yul Brynner, Sean Connery, or Michael Jordan — make balding look good. For most of us, though, it’s a pain. A double pain, if balding is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, as some studies have suggested. Take heart, all ye with receding (or receded) hairlines. At least half of […]
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 19 /PRNewswire/ — Let’s be honest, with the exception of Michael Jordan and a few others, the bald look is a tough one to pull off.You see so many hair loss treatments advertised on late night television that all promise to work with great success. If this was in fact the case, […]
Every few years this comes back into the news:
Researchers have identified a gene linked to hair loss that could lead to new drugs to treat baldness.
The gene is responsible for a rare hereditary form of hair loss known as Hypotrichosis simplex, a condition affecting 1 in 200,000 people, in which people begin going bald in […]