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Bosses at hair loss firm Rogaine are courting balding royal Prince William for a major new ad campaign.

The heads of the hair care company want the groom-to-be to become a spokesman for them - and they're sending him a basket of goodies ahead of his 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton in the hope he'll be suitably impressed.

A company spokesman tells Life & Style magazine, "We’ve been watching Prince William’s growing bald spot closely for years, and we believe Rogaine can help.

"We’d love to send him our new Unscented Men’s Rogaine Foam. William would be the perfect spokesman for Rogaine because whether you’re a prince or an average Joe, hereditary hair loss affects one in four men.

"When he’s on the altar and the world is looking at the back of his head, he won’t have to worry about the hair that’s not there."

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss, Regaine, Rogaine

Q. When did you first learn that you had alopecia?

A. In 1995, a time of big transitions in my life. After doing highly successful postdoctoral research on genetic blistering skin diseases at Jefferson Medical College, I’d arrived here at Columbia to start my own laboratory. I had just turned 30. I was getting a divorce. When you start your first lab, a researcher is expected to find something different from their postdoc work. For my first six months here, I sat thinking, “What am I going to do when I grow up?”

In the midst of all this, I went to a beauty parlor and the stylist said: “What’s happened here? You have a big patch of hair missing from the back of your head.” I ignored that. But the next day at the lab, I asked a colleague to take a look. She let out a bloodcurdling scream: “You have a huge bald spot!”

I immediately went over to the clinic here. They said: “Oh, you have alopecia. There’s not much we can do to treat it.”

Q. Alopecia is genetic. Do you have relatives with it?

A. My mom and her mother had hair loss from a young age. I have a cousin also who lost all of her hair. Ironically, hair is a big part of my family’s life. My grandfather was a barber in Italy and then later in New Jersey. And my mother was a hairdresser before retiring. I’m the first person in my family to go to college and graduate school: Rutgers. My mother now says, “You’re just another hair person — you just do it differently.”

Q. How did this history lead to your research?

A. In the months after my diagnosis, I went through panic and shock. Every morning, I’d wake up wondering if it was all going to fall out. And new spots did show up. I’d cover them with the most careful combing. Then there’d be a new one. It was like plugging holes in a dam. It finally stopped after two years.

Categories: Alopecia, Female hair loss, Hair Cloning, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Womens hair loss

Severe dandruff is actually a disease known as seborrheic dermatitis, which requires prescription medications.

See a doctor if you have:

Scalp irritation

Thick scale deposits despite regular use of dandruff shampoos

Yellowish crusting

Red patches, especially along the neckline

Severe cases of dandruff are caused by a disease called seborrhoeic eczema or seborrhoeic dermatitis.

Seborrhoeic dermatitis causes greasy, bran-like scale. The seborrhoeic area - the scalp, the skin around the nose, the lines on the cheeks, the eyebrows, the ears and the torso - may also be red and itchy.

Seborrhoeic dermatitis becomes worse during the winter and tends to improve during the summer when sunlight relieves the symptoms.

It can vary from mild cases, which are only a problem in winter, to more severe cases where flaking occurs in places other than just the scalp.

Categories: Dandruff, Hair Care, Hair Loss

Folligen is a non-drug product designed by Dr. Loren Pickart to improve scalp and hair follicle health and hair vitality. Folligen had its beginning as a skin repair cream that was being tested in the Dermatology Department at the University of California at San Francisco.

A 41-year-old woman with severe hair loss tried one of our skin repair creams because nothing else had worked to restore her lost hair. In two and one/half months she regained all her lost hair.

Other people began using our skin repair cream to counter hair loss and. in time, Folligen emerged as a distinct product.

Folligen's biological effect on hair is similar to other copper-peptide products such as Graftcyte and Tricomin which are skin repair products that aid hair growth and scalp health.

Folligen Solution Therapy Spray which can be sprayed as a fine mist into the hair and is designed to improve scalp and hair follicle health and hair vitality.

Categories: Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment

Sleep is an important factor in the beauty bid for youthful looks. But where you lay your head during that rest-time is equally pertinent. As we are devoting more time and money to a variety of facial treatments and products we need to ensure that we get the benefits from them.

Sleeping on natural silk will help lock moisture in and ensures it a stays on your skin. Cotton and man-made fibres dry your skin out and soak up moisture. Silk is a living, breathing product containing proteins and amino acids which are very similar to those in human skin.

Natural silk also has the same PH balance, which helps to protect and maintain moisture levels.

Silk is also good for preventing 'bed head'. Using a natural Silkskin pillowcase allows hair to glide across the pillowcase without getting caught. Regular cotton pillowcases can get the hair caught and cause breakage, especially if you toss and turn a lot while resting. It prevents morning frizz and can also prevent your hair from falling out.

Silkskin spent two years researching and sourcing their totally natural silk pillowcases, which are known to reduce wrinkles, prevent hair loss and frizz. This is the softest silk you can ever imagine next to your skin.

At night time your skin repairs itself and it needs the chance to breath, naturally. Silkskin stops your face and hair from drying out and protects it from developing more lines or deeper creases.

Categories: Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Womens hair loss

An experimental cold cap has the potential to eliminate hair loss in chemotherapy patients.

The “DigniCap,” a tightly-fitting, mechanical cap worn during chemotherapy, uses a circulating cooling gel that chills hair follicles, restricting the amount of chemotherapy they absorb.

About 65% of patients who undergo chemotherapy radiation treatment face hair loss, and for some, it can be a source of devastating self-consciousness.

47-year-old breast cancer patient Heather Millar, who blogs about her experience with cancer on “My Left Breast,” says she broke down when she realized she would lose her hair.

“The hair, it’s not the most important thing, but it’s such a stigma of cancer. The minute you’re wearing a scarf or something, it makes social interactions weird,” Millar said, according to MSNBC.

The Swedish-made DigniCap will soon undergo an FDA trial to assess its effectiveness and safety. Researchers will monitor 100 patients whose breast cancer is still in the early stages.

The caps cool the scalp to -30 Celsius, causing blood vessels around the hair follicles to contract. This way, the follicles absorb less chemo.

Categories: Baldness, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Womens hair loss

Plug-In For Success: Looking for a job? Don that suit — and be hirsute.

One expert says the balding are at a distinct disadvantage, especially in today's tight job market.

"If you're looking for a job right now, if you match up a person with hair to a non-hairy person, the competitive marketplace tends to favour the people with hair," said Dr. William Rassman, a hair restoration surgeon and author of "Hair Loss & Replacement for Dummies."

Increasing the hairs on one's head, he said, can boost self-confidence and even a career.

Rassman, who has been transplanting hair for 18 years, said his patients, especially those in the performing arts, have benefited from the surgeries, which are usually done in several sessions over the course of about a year.

And a full mane can help propel one even to the highest office.

"Take a look at all the presidents of the U.S. How many of them were bald? Eisenhower was the last one. Hair like Clinton's helps a lot; hair like Obama's got helps a lot," he said.

Hair restoration can cost anywhere from $3,000 to $10,000, depending on the amount of hair that needs to be transplanted. Drugs to slow down hair loss, such as Propecia, made by Merck & Co., meanwhile, would run about $900 a year, he said, and are not covered by insurance.

Categories: Baldness, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment

The stresses of modern life have left one in three women over the age of 25 suffering from hair loss, research has revealed.

Experts believe a major cause is society's obsession with being thin.

This leads women to eat less as they try to imitate the skinny frames of celebrities, which means they are not getting enough nutrients which, in turn, is causing their hair to thin or even fall out.

A survey found that 37 per cent of women have experienced hair loss to some degree, with serious thinning a problem for 4.8million women in the UK.

Researchers argue that because the phenomenon is regarded as something that happens only to women in old age, the hair loss itself is adding to stress levels, accelerating the process.

Almost all of the 3,000 women aged 25 and over who were polled said they would be ashamed to say they were losing their hair.

A third of the women said hair loss made them depressed, while a quarter said their personal lives had been affected.

Categories: Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Stress and hair loss, Womens hair loss

A bald head is no advantage when it comes to absorbing vitamin D from the sun, say scientists seeking an explanation for why men lose their hair.

The study, which researchers warned could be skewed by "undisclosed use of hair pieces or 'comb over' techniques", saw 296 middle-aged or older men recruited and rated according to their hair.

Skin type and how often they wore a hat or applied sunblock to their scalp were also taken into account in a bid to explain why older men commonly have higher levels of vitamin D than older women.

Almost half of the study group (48 per cent) had a full head of hair or only "mild" recession, while 15 per cent had "predominant" hair loss and 37 per cent were bald or had "significant" hair loss.

Despite the variables across the groups, researchers found there was no statistically significant difference in the men's level of vitamin D.

"We conclude that baldness does not appear to have an effect on vitamin D status," the authors state.

"... Other hypotheses are required to determine why older men go bald and whether baldness serves any physiological purpose."

The researchers said it was possible vitamin D was not produced in the scalp, and that older women had lower vitamin D levels because they had less sun exposure in general and they were more likely to use sunblock.

Categories: Baldness, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Hair Loss Vitamins

Hair Discoloration and Hair Thinning May be the Result of Chlorinated Pool water or its friction

The department of research writing at Quick Hair Loss Treatment reports studies reveal that chlorinated pool water results in hair discoloration and hair thinning in regular swimmers.

Some pools contains higher levels of chlorine that may irritate a swimmers skin.

Though chlorinated water often results hair thinning and hair discoloration, it is not necessary to develop such conditions in all cases.

The severity of the condition may depend upon your skin susceptibility and your immune response. The skin gets slightly scratchy and irritated and then hairloss and hair discoloration occurs.

The research further studies that discoloration of hair is certainly caused by swimming in chlorinated pool water but the issues relating hair thinning are still not convincing.

The Report suggests that chlorinated pool water does cause hair thinning and hair damage but does not result in complete Baldness .

Therefore, it is advised to regular swimmers to use skin nourishment tonics and wear protective headgear for swimming. It is also advised to use chlorine cleansers in the pool.

Categories: Baldness, Hair Care, Hair Loss

Lexington International, developer and manufacturer of the revolutionary HairMax LaserComb ®, is pleased to announce that it has entered into agreement with Dr. Besaran Fattah, a diplomat of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery to distribute the HairMax to medical and consumer audiences in Iraq.

The HairMax is the only home use laser phototherapy device that has been proven effective for the treatment of certain classes of hereditary hair loss in males and is FDA Class 2 Cleared for marketing.

This agreement will facilitate the introduction of the HairMax LaserComb into the growing hair care market in Iraq and will help establish Lexington as a leader in the growing hair care market in that country. Also, the availability of the HairMax in Iraq will expand the overall availability of the device in Middle Eastern markets.

This introduction continues the company’s international expansion strategy to offer effective therapies to a wider audience of people around the world with hair loss.

According to independent reports, the hair care market of GCC member countries that Iraq will soon rejoin, registered sales of almost USD600 million in 2010 and is expected to grow the almost USD 700 million by 2014 or a 16% increase.

Hair care is one of the fastest growing segments in GCC member countries and that is why Lexington considered this an ideal time to expand availability of the HairMax to Iraq which will soon be part of the Council.

Categories: Alopecia, Baldness, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Lasercomb

Botox maker Allergan has begun clinical trials of a possible hair-growth treatment based on the active ingredient in its drug Latisse, which stimulates the growth of eyelashes.

Allergan announced late last month on the federal Clinical Trials website that recruiting of volunteer subjects has begun. This phase of the experiments is scheduled to be completed in February.

The website includes a description of what’s required of volunteers and an email address for more information. The experimenters aren’t in a location that’s convenient to Orange County: They are in Tempe, Ariz.

This phase of the trials will include a total of about 28 patients — men with moderate male-pattern baldness and women with moderate female-pattern hair loss.

The FDA approved Latisse in 2008 as a treatment for sparse eyelashes, with a warning that it can cause hair growth on other parts of the body that come in contact with the drug. Some doctors have already tried using Latisse as an “off-label” treatment for hair loss.

Categories: Baldness, Hair Care, Hair Cloning, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment

One lucky California resident, Matthew Barrazza just received a big pre-holiday gift thanks to the power of Facebook and Bay Area hair restoration surgeon, Sara Wasserbauer, M.D. Wasserbauer recently launched her Facebook page by offering a free hair transplant.

Fans were invited to submit their hair loss stories and share how hair restoration would impact their life. Dr. Wasserbauer narrowed the received entries down to three finalists, then the power of Facebook took over and fans were invited to vote for the finalist they wished to see receive the free hair transplant procedure (a $12,500 value).

Barrazza, a wellness promoter, speaker, and professional fighter athlete, experienced significant hair loss due to his own genetic disposition also known as androgenetic alopecia or male pattern baldness. His own hair loss was also accelerated due to overtraining and stress.

“The hair transplant offered by Dr. Wasserbauer will provide me with the opportunity to look and feel better about my appearance,” said Barrazza. “As a professional speaker, I am talking with big groups all the time, but my inhibition about my hair loss is my biggest insecurity. I appreciate all of the Facebook fans who voted for me to have this wonderful opportunity and look forward to seeing the results.”

Categories: Baldness, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Hair Transplant

Berlin researchers have grown the world’s first hair follicle using stem cells, giving hope to both the bald and animal rights activists around the world

The hair follicle created by bioengineers at the capital’s Technical University (TU) is somewhat thinner than a normal scalp follicle, but will provide both hair implant possibilities and end the need for millions of animal tests in the future, daily Die Welt said.

Created by bioengineer and doctor Roland Lauster and his team, the hair follicle can be used to research the causes of hair loss, and may also be used for more effective implants than hair plugs – after clinical studies, of course.

“Preparations for this are already in motion,” Lauster told Die Welt.

Additional purposes may include research on hair growth, structure and pigmentation, as well as the effects of toxic substances.

Nanoparticles enter the skin through hair follicles, thus the new invention could tap into the enormous cosmetic testing market, which has seen the number of animal experiments explode in recent years, the paper said.

“Since 1950, the development of new chemicals has gone up 500-fold, and so has the number of animal tests for the licensing of these,” Lauster said.

Skin and hair follicles created in a lab could replace the need for test animals, the paper wrote.

The professor plans to team up with Dr. Uwe Marx to establish a hair follicle test system, then move on to creating a miniature liver, kidney and bone marrow to form a multi-organ biochip to test pharmaceutical and cosmetic substances.

Categories: Baldness, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Cloning, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment

UCSF physicians are combating a devastating side effect of chemotherapy with an innovative new program -- "Hair to Stay" -- to evaluate devices that could reduce scalp hair loss in breast cancer patients.

One feasibility study on a scalp cooling system, the first significant inquiry of its kind in the United States, will test the safety and effectiveness of a device already widely used overseas called the "DigniCap."

The FDA recently approved a pilot study of the Swedish cool cap, which continuously cools a patient's scalp during treatment using a circulating coolant inside a gel cap. The first patients are being enrolled at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and at Wake Forest University Medical Center.

"Devices that prevent hair loss have the potential to make a huge difference to our patients," said Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, co-leader of the Breast Oncology Program at the center and director of the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. "If we can avoid hair loss, then our patients can avoid one of the most emotionally difficult and dreaded side effects of chemotherapy."

The cool cap process is a relatively simple and low-cost solution. By cooling the scalp, blood vessels surrounding the hair roots contract, resulting in a significant reduction of cytotoxins to the follicle. With reduced blood flow, less chemotherapy is available for cell uptake, while at the same time the lower temperature results in less absorption of the chemicals.

Categories: Baldness, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Womens hair loss

Prince believes personification the electric guitar has stopped him from starting bald.

The 52-year-old cocktail fable — who can fool around twenty-seven opposite instruments — is assured the physical phenomenon which flows by a guitar when he strums it is the reason he still has palatable locks.

“Playing electric guitar your total hold up does something to you,” he said. “I’m assured all which physical phenomenon racing by your physique done me keep my hair.”

Prince — who has expelled over thirty albums during his career — additionally admits he can’t “function” scrupulously if he can’t jot down songs.

“Music is my life,” he said. “It’s my trade. If me can’t get it out of my conduct me can’t function.

“Someone told me not long ago they saw me at my peak, though how do they know when my rise is? me consider I’m mending all the time. When me attend to my aged annals I’m abashed of how me played them.”

Categories: Baldness, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment

Health Canada has put a stop-sale order on 10 hair-straightening products after they were found to contain excessive levels of formaldehyde.

The products, which are professional-grade and available in hair salons and typically not available to the public, have been linked to hair loss, watery eyes and other symptoms consistent with overexposure to formaldehyde.

Consumer complaints included reports of burning eyes, nose, and throat and breathing difficulties.

The order, which means providers should stop using the products immediately, was issued Friday evening.

Health Canada received at least 30 adverse-reaction reports to the use of the products. No deaths have been reported.

The Canada Border Service Agency has been advised to turn away the products, which originate in the United States, if they arrive at the border.

The affected products are: Brazilian Keratin Treatment, Advanced Brazilian Keratin Treatment, Chocolate Extreme De-Frizzing Treatment; Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy; Global Keratin Taming System Strawberry; Global Keratin Taming System with Juvexin Strawberry Resistant; Global Keratin Taming System with Juvexin Strawberry Light Wave; Pro-Collagen RX Keratin Treatment; IStraight Keratin (Advanced Keratin Treatment); Brazilian Thermal Reconstruction.

Categories: Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Womens hair loss

Men prefer to date women with a great body than a beautiful head of hair. But most women say they would rather date a man with thinning or balding hair than one who was overweight, a new survey has found.

The online survey of 1,019 adults for physicianshairgrowth.com also revealed that 25 percent of women and 20 percent of men believe wearing a baseball cap or hat can contribute to hair loss. "Wearing a cap is one of the key misconceptions about hair loss and does not contribute to hair thinness or balding in any way," states hair re-growth specialist, Oscar Klein, M.D., founder and president of physicianshairgrowth.com and maker of an innovative line of topical hair re-growth products.

Other Key Findings:

* When asked if they would be attracted to a woman with thinning hair, 61 percent of men said no.

* An overwhelming majority of men (81 percent) and women (89 percent) believe heredity is the key culprit for why people lose their hair.

* Most (81 percent of women/76 percent of men) did not believe frequent shampoo use contributed to hair loss. However, the frequent application of hair processing treatments such as coloring and hair straightening is a factor in thinning hair and one percent (1 percent) of women in the survey agreed.

* Only 11 percent of men believe stress is a key factor in hair loss when, in fact, it causes 10 percent of the population to go thin. Four percent of men believe side effects from medications can cause balding.

Categories: Alopecia, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment

A Birmingham hair salon which specialises in wigs for people suffering from hair loss has taken the title in the West Midlands Small Business Awards.

Kingstanding-based Pink Hair beat off competition from 14 other nominees to take the prize at a ceremony held at Aston Villa Football Club.

The salon in Hawthorn Road was launched three years ago by directors Linda Allan, Anne Canning and Peter Howarth in response to requests from clients keen to find a specialist in hair replacement.

“We wanted somewhere with individual rooms where we would have the time and space to offer individual service to people who were experiencing hair loss,” said Linda. “When we set up we said that, as long as we could cover our costs, that would be all right.”

In the event the salon has exceeded expectations with clients visiting from across the country – and beyond.

“There isn’t anything like us, we are unique,” said Linda. “And we have had people come from the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands, even Spain.”

The service aims to ensure the hair choices are right for the client.

Categories: Alopecia, Baldness, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Wigs, Womens hair loss

BACKGROUND:

The literature suggests that iron deficiency (ID) may play a role in female pattern hair loss (FPHL) or in chronic telogen effluvium (CTE).

OBJECTIVE:

We sought to determine if ID is more common in women with FPHL and/or CTE than in control subjects without hair loss.

METHODS:

This was a controlled study of 381 Caucasian women aged 18 years or older with FPHL or CTE seen in the Duke University Hair Disorders Clinic, Durham, NC, and 76 Caucasian women aged 18 years or older from the university environs who had no history or physical findings of hair loss (control subjects).

All participants had to have at least a serum ferritin and hemoglobin reading and history of menopausal status.

Categories: Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Hair Loss Vitamins, Womens hair loss

Is hair-loss ruining your life?

Are you hiding your hair-loss under hats or hair pieces? Do you feel like it’s destroying your self confidence?

Do you want to do something about it?

Is your body ruining your life?

Are you hiding a physical problem underneath your clothes?

Are you afraid of revealing it to your family or friends?

Do you want to do something about it?

Maverick Television are looking for people for a brand new medical series ‘My Secret Body’.

From excess skin to male breasts, extreme body hair to severe skin conditions, if you'd like to be considered for consultation, advice and possible treatment of your secret body issue please get in touch.

E-mail mysecretbody@mavericktv.co.uk or call 0207 874 6692 for more information.

Categories: Baldness, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment

Besides being the single most preventable cause of significant morbidity and an important cause of death in the general population, tobacco smoking has been associated with adverse effects on the skin.

Smoke-induced premature skin ageing has attracted the attention of the medical community, while only recently an observational study has indicated a significant relationship between smoking and baldness.

The mechanisms by which smoking causes hair loss are multifactorial and are probably related to effects of cigarette smoke on the microvasculature of the dermal hair papilla, smoke genotoxicants causing damage to DNA of the hair follicle, smoke-induced imbalance in the follicular protease/antiprotease systems controlling tissue remodeling during the hair growth cycle, pro-oxidant effects of smoking leading to the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines resulting in follicular micro-inflammation and fibrosis and finally increased hydroxylation of oestradiol as well as inhibition of the enzyme aromatase creating a relative hypo-oestrogenic state.

In view of the psychological impact of androgenetic alopecia on affected men and women, increasing public awareness of the association between smoking and hair loss offers an opportunity for health education against smoking that may be more effective than the link between smoking and facial wrinkles or grey hair, since the latter can be effectively counteracted by current aesthetic dermatologic procedures, while treatment options for androgenetic alopecia are limited.

Categories: Baldness, Hair Care, Hair Loss

DermMatch Hair Loss Concealer

Dermatologists and hair transplant surgeons have used DermMatch since 1992. It's recommended for hair loss, hair transplants, female and male pattern baldness and alopecia areata. DermMatch is a hard packed powdered formula with 8 blendable shades.

It colors bald areas exposed by hair loss and adds tremendous volume to thin hairs. DermMatch coats each individual hair, thickens it and lifts it up.

No product in the world adds more fullness in areas left sparse by hair loss.

You'll have smooth, brushable hair that looks thick and natural. Colored sprays, lotions in a tube and sprinkle jars can't do this for hair loss.

Thick, full and natural. That's how your hair should look. DermMatch turns thin hair into big, fluffy hair. It coats every thin hair, picks it up and gives it lift. It leaves your hair smooth and brushable.

Nothing looks more natural. You've probably seen other skin-coloring products that disguise hair loss. Have you seen what they do to your hair? Colored sprays can turn hair into hay. Just try brushing through that. Colored creams in a tube make hair stringy and gooey. Sprinkle jars put particles at the base of your hair but add nothing to the hair itself. Get big hair. Buy DermMatch.

Categories: Alopecia, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment

Dermatologists today have more options for treating hair loss during menopause than ever before. But according to one expert in the field of female hair loss, unless the right diagnosis is made, the treatments might be less than effective.

"We know more about the mechanisms of hair loss than we did a decade ago, and have a wide variety of pharmaceuticals and treatments to choose from," says Theodore J. Daly, M.D., F.A.A.D., director, Garden City Dermatology, Garden City, N.Y. "Getting the diagnosis right can lead you to a successful solution."

Female pattern is the most common form of hair loss during menopause, and affects approximately one in three women during this time of their lives. While gradual hair loss is often the reason for the office visit, getting to the root cause is crucial.

Other common reasons for hair loss in menopausal women are low thyroid and hormone changes, according to Dr. Daly, who is board-certified in dermatology, pediatric dermatology and dermatopathology.

"Although hair loss during menopause is a serious cosmetic problem for many women, its cause can be systemic or due to nutrient deficits, and those factors aren't apparent with exam only. In fact, a recent study of women with fluctuating hormones showed that a significant percentage of their deficits were detected by lab only."

Categories: Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Womens hair loss

Telly presenter Gail Porter has revealed that her hair is starting to fall out again - just months after it grew back.

Sad Gail, 39, lost her glossy locks to alopecia while suffering post-natal depression after the birth of her daughter Honey.

She was bald for five years and bravely refused to wear a wig.

Her hair gradually returned after she found new love with Jonny Davies, 14 years her junior.

But the Edinburgh-born star wrote online: "Bit of hair falling out again."

She was flooded with messages of support, one of them saying: "You're beautiful, with or without hair."

Categories: Alopecia, Female hair loss, Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Womens hair loss

James Nesbitt is proudly sporting a new head of hair, after undergoing two hair transplants.

The 45-year-old actor - who has recently signed up to play dwarf Bolfur in the new Hobbit movie - appears in a video testimonial on the website for the Hair Restoration Blackrock (HRBR) clinic revealing how he sought treatment after he began losing his hair several years ago.

James said: "Several years ago, I began losing my hair and like a lot of men it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

"So, after many agonies and a great amount of thought - and believe me it's something I didn't take lightly - I took the decision to visit Hair Restoration Blackrock, Dublin in Ireland.

"So, I had a consultation with the surgeon who told me I was a good candidate for hair transplant surgery.

"Since then I have had two hair transplants and I am very pleased with the results. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they've changed my life."

Categories: Hair Care, Hair Loss, Hair Loss Treatment, Hair Transplant