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From Dr. Koop:
Baldness is not usually caused by a disease, but is related to aging, heredity, and testosterone. (link)
The article then lists a number of other causes of hair loss:
Hormonal changes (for example, thyroid disease, childbirth, or use of the birth control pill)
A serious illness (like a tumor of the ovary or adrenal glands) or […]
Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, seems to have a bit of a thing for the bald heads. Consider these recent guests:
Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus. He’s bald.
And Natalie Portman, who went under the clippers on screen for her recent film, V for Vendetta. Not losing her hair, but clearly bald in this […]
From The Pitt News, comes a rather scathing take on the growing market for lifestyle drugs, such as those that regrow hair. From the opinion piece:
Doctors must take the Hippocratic oath before they can practice. This oath states that as a doctor, one will do no harm. But when doctors and researchers believe that there […]
There’s another blogger out there looking at the issue of hair loss. Let me introduce you to Hair Loss Buddy. Self-described:
My Dad is 57 and bald, he was bald at 25. My Grandad is 72 and bald. My brother was bald at 27. Not looking good for me - or is it? I’m 28 and […]
A three in the dying seconds by Northwestern State’s Jermaine Wallace has ended Bald Man of the Week Greg Brunner’s tournament dreams.
(Photo credit: Getty Images via CBS Sportsline)
With all the shaved heads, I’ll need to work hard to find a worthy player who is actually balding to root for for the next couple weeks. Perhaps […]
Not the glow-in-the-dark bald guy! This isn’t science fiction, just cutting edge science. Check out this article from Fast Company on gene-therapy (GT). An exerpt:
In the course of evaluating a GT baldness cure, San Diego researcher Robert Hoffman and his colleagues developed a test using a gene for a green fluorescent protein–only to discover they’d […]
From the York Daily Record, comes this story of people going bald for a good cause.
More than 150 folks - mostly volunteer firefighters - gathered at Union Fire Co. No. 1 in Manchester and shared Pierce’s sentiment as they made their way to a stage where eight hair stylists waited to shave heads. They sacrificed […]
A comment today from baldgirly, who lost her hair as a twelve year old, makes this this story from the Yakima (WA) Herald Republic all the more appropriate. Meet Dylan Ball, a sixth grader and freestyle skier who has lost all of his body hair due to alopecia areata. From the article:
Having no hair […]
I imagine some of you have wandered into Baldiness not because you’re a thirty year-old man looking for an organic hair loss treatment, (Still looking for insight into the hot peppers, by the way.) but rather because you or someone you know is undergoing chemotherapy or a similar treatment that causes baldness. Along those lines, […]
[UPDATE] OK, so I find this story about Gail Porter and do a quick write up. Last night I’m coaching my daughter’s indoor soccer team and - no kidding! - during a break one of the girls comes up and out of the blue starts rubbing the fuzz on my head! Non-stop noogies for at […]
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