Hair loss sufferers desperate to get help for their thinning hair turn to all kinds of products: laser therapy, laser combs, accupuncture, shampoos, and herbal hair loss remedies. Herbal hair loss remedies are big business on the Internet and sellers make all kinds of wild claims about the efficacy of herbs with little evidence to [...] [...more]
The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons, a non-profit of over 700 hair transplant doctors, is seeing a steady increase in the number of women undergoing hair restoration surgery. One such patient, Angela Roisten, battled hair loss most of her adult life. In Angela’s case, her hair loss was caused by pulling her hair into [...] [...more]
Sue Holderness, the actor who portrays bouffant-haired Marlene on BBC’s Only Fools And Horses, could only achieve that “big hair” with the help of wigs. Holderness has recently revealed that she has been a hair loss sufferer since her mid 30s. After having children in her 30s, the actor says she began losing hair, dramatically, [...] [...more]
Scientists have linked a newly discovered gene, chromosome 20, to male pattern hair loss. Researchers at Montreal’s McGill University, King’s College in London and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, along with colleagues in Iceland, Switzerland and the Netherlands, found that the 14 per cent of men who carry one variant of chromosome 20 and one androgen receptor variant [...] [...more]
Hair loss sufferers around the world often consider hair pieces or wigs as a way of concealing their hair loss, but when is a hair piece or wig the right choice over hair transplantation? The criteria people use differs, and often, people who choose hair systems don’t know enough about them to make an educated [...] [...more]
