Category: baldness

Study Shows Bald Males May Have a Higher Risk of Heart Disease, Some Ideas to Help

In modern society, many people suffer from hair loss. Studies have shown that hair loss is not only related to scalp health but may also be associated with coronary heart disease risk. Chen Hsin Hung, a Traditional Chinese Medicine physician at Taiwan’s Joyful HAN Chinese Medicine Clinic, wrote an article to remind the public to…


Choosing Between Health and Your Hairline?

More than half of men older than 50 will experience male pattern baldness, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), and that rate climbs to 80 percent for Caucasian men. Male pattern baldness, medically known as “androgenetic alopecia,” begins above both temples, causes thinning at the crown, and often results in partial or complete…


Drug Marketed for Baldness Linked With Side-Effects Ranging From Impotence to Suicide

More than half of men older than 50 will experience male pattern baldness, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), and that rate climbs to 80 percent for Caucasian men. Male pattern baldness, medically known as “androgenetic alopecia,” begins above both temples, causes thinning at the crown, and often results in partial or complete…


If Hair Loss Can Devastate US Psychologically, We Don’t Know What Adversity Is

Commentary Possibly you didn’t know Jimmy Stewart wore a toupee. Or left Hollywood to serve in World War II, not in a safe PR job but piloting B-24 Liberators over Germany, rose to colonel from private in just four years, and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. Or, if you are the voice of youth, who…