(330) 876-1228
8507 Main StreetKinsman, OH 44428
(330) 876-1229
Patient Resources
Get Healthy!
Results for search "Hair Loss".
Health News Results - 12
10 Jun
Microneedle Patch Might Restore Hair Growth After Alopecia
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
- June 10, 2024
- Full Page
Researchers have developed a novel way to promote hair growth in people who have the autoimmune disease alopecia areata.
It's a skin patch that delivers immune-system controllers through an array of tiny needles.
In alopecia, the body's own T-cells mistakenly attac...
13 May
Microneedle Patches Might Reverse a Form of Hair Loss
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
- May 13, 2024
- Full Page
Early research in mice suggests a new path forward to restoring hair growth in people affected by a form of alopecia.
Alopecia areata is an autommune disorder that affects an estimated 6 million Americans and has no cure, according to researchers at the Massachuset...
22 Feb
Could Hair Loss Drug Finasteride Help Men's Hearts?
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- February 22, 2024
- Full Page
The common hair-loss drug in Propecia and Proscar might lower men's risk of heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels, a new study suggests.
Finasteride is used to treat male pattern baldness, and it's also been shown effective in treating an enlarged prostate, resear...
17 Aug
A New Treatment Option for a Form of Sudden Hair Loss
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- August 17, 2023
- Full Page
A new type of medication, JAK inhibitors, can effectively treat moderate to severe alopecia areata, a hair loss condition that has been historically hard to treat.
A study of its effectiveness, by Dr...
07 Jun
What Is Male Pattern Baldness? Can Anything Be Done?
- Meredith Morckel HealthDay Reporter
- June 7, 2023
- Full Page
Have you seen more hair in the shower or on the bathroom floor than usual?
Grab a mirror and take a look at your head. If it looks like you're "going bald,"you may have androgenic alopecia (male pattern baldness).
17 Mar
Sometimes Hair Loss in Women Can Point to Bigger Health Issues
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- March 17, 2023
- Full Page
Hair loss can be devastating for women, but the condition can also signal additional health problems.
An American Academy of Dermatology expert offers information about the types of hair loss seen in women with darker skin tones, common types of medical conditions associ...
06 Jan
The Naked Ape: Science Unravels How Humans Lost Their Body Hair
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
- January 6, 2023
- Full Page
In the mammalian world, there are the hairy, the less hairy and the hairless. But why that is has remained a mystery.
Until now.
In a new study that compared the DNA of 62 animals, researchers found that while humans appear to have the genes for a full coat of body...
21 Oct
Bald Men, Take Note: Scientists Grow Hair Follicles in the Lab
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- October 21, 2022
- Full Page
In what could be an advance against hair loss, researchers say they've successfully grown hair follicles in culture in the lab.
The Japanese research team created a system that produces full...
19 Jul
Who'll Get Long COVID? Just a Look at a Patient Gives Clues
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
- July 19, 2022
- Full Page
Sometimes just looking at a person can give clues to their likelihood of developing long COVID after a bout with the virus.
For example, obese people are five times more likely to suffer
14 Jun
FDA Approves First Pill to Treat Severe Alopecia
- By Robin Foster and Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporters
- June 14, 2022
- Full Page
The first pill to treat adults with severe alopecia was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday.
Olumiant (baricitinib) is the first FDA-approved alopecia therapy th...
10 Feb
The Bald Facts on How Best to Fight Hair Loss in Men
- February 10, 2022
- Full Page
Nearly all men see their hairline recede or a bald spot emerge at some point in their life. For those looking to slow the march of time, a new study helps sort out which hair-loss medications work best.
The analysis, of 23 previous studies, ranks the available hair-loss ...
28 Oct
Bald Truth: Mouse Study May Get at Roots of Hair Loss
- Robert Preidt
- October 28, 2021
- Full Page
New research in mice may provide clues to age-related hair loss in men and women.
Scientists found that as hair stem cells in mice age, they lose the stickiness that keeps them secured inside the hair follicle. This allows the stem cells to drift away from the follicle.<...