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Medical research over the past three decades has come a long way in understanding male-pattern baldness. There are now medications available that stop the balding process and sometimes can stimulate b...

Over 50 percent of men will start losing their hair by the time they reach age 50.  This phenomenon is called male-pattern hair loss (androgenic alopecia). For the most part, it&rs...

On average about 50 percent of men start losing hair when they are past the age of 40, and for some, the onset of balding is even earlier. About 80 percent of Caucasian men will bald with growing age,...

Alopecia is a general medical term that is used to refer to all forms of hair loss. It’s an old Greek word and originally meant a fox suffering from mange, a canid skin disease that among other ...

The slow balding that affects most men with advancing age is called pattern hair loss or, in clinical terms, androgenic alopecia. It’s an inherited disease that affects 50 percent of men, typica...

The American Academy of Dermatologists says that normal daily hair loss is in the order of 50 – 100, whereas other experts say that the normal range extends up to 150 strands of hair per day. Th...

Let’s admit it: as good as all the hair on your head may look, it’s of little actual use for your health and survival, other than providing a little insulation and shading — a job an...

95 percent of baldness in men older than 40 happens because of genetic factors. This is called male pattern hair loss and the clinical term is androgenic alopecia.  It’s an inherited condit...