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It could be so easy. Just accept the fact that 80 percent of men will start losing hair in their 40s and 50s due to genetic factors and eventually go bald. After all, there’s no health-related r...

Sometimes stress can cause temporary hair loss which will lead to a general thinning of the hair that affects the entire scalp. Long-term lack of nutritious food, poor sleeping quality, severe illness...

There are three broad categories of male baldness: genetically inherited gradual balding (androgenic alopecia), sudden hair loss due to autoimmune disorders (alopecia areata) and stress-related tempor...

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

Close to 80 percent of Caucasian men will have started losing hair by their 50s, while for Africans and Asians it’s about 50 percent. This phenomenon is called male pattern hair loss (androgenic...

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...