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News: May 28, 2012
Do Bald Men Face Higher Risk of Prostate Cancer?
TUESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Got hair? If you don't, you might have a higher risk of prostate cancer, a preliminary study suggests. Researchers are reporting that bald men who underwent biopsies of the prostate were more likely to have canc...
Research Spots Potential New Target in Fight Against Baldness
WEDNESDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- Men worried about encroaching baldness, take heart: A genetic analysis of tissue taken from both bald and hairier spots on men's scalps has identified a protein involved in male pattern hair loss. The resear...
Men's Legs May Be New Source for Hair Transplants
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors may have a leg up on baldness: Transplanting hair from a patient's legs to his head for what may be a more natural look. In the February issue of the Archives of Dermatology, Dr. Sanusi Umar explained...
Could Divorce Trigger Hair Loss in Women?
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) -- As if the heartache of divorce wasn't hardship enough, it appears that women enduring marital break-up may also have to deal with hair loss. New research reveals that, genetics aside, the next strongest pred...
Mouse Study Could Give New Clues to Fighting Baldness
THURSDAY, Sept.1 (HealthDay News) -- Molecular signals from stem cells within the skin's fatty layer trigger hair growth in mice, a finding that may lead to new treatments for baldness in people, researchers report. "If we can get these fat cells ...
Could Hair Loss at 20 Signal Higher Prostate Cancer Risk?
TUESDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Men with prostate cancer may be twice as likely to have started showing signs of male pattern baldness at the age of 20 than those without prostate cancer, a new French study suggests. Men who start losing thei...
Stem Cell Defect Might Help Spur Common Baldness
TUESDAY, Jan. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Common baldness could have its roots in a newly identified stem cell defect, a finding that could potentially lead to new hair-loss treatments down the road, a new study reveals. Researchers say they discovered ...
Genes Tied to Hair Loss Disorder
WEDNESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have implicated eight genes in the development of alopecia areata, a disorder that causes hair to thin and fall out. The genes are already associated with other autoimmune diseases, including rheu...
Study Offers Insights Into Male Pattern Baldness
WEDNESDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are reporting that they've linked a gene to a rare condition that makes people develop thin "peach fuzz" hair, potentially paving the way toward greater insight into male-pattern baldness. The fi...
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