OUT of good faith or gullibility, folks suspended their scepticism a week ago to witness a courageous athlete with a crumbling hip, to indulge in the delightful journey of a redhead from the Amish land of apple butter and horse buggies as he pedalled through Paris sipping champagne at the finish.
A toast to Floyd Landis, […]
Some men perceive losing hair as a real problem. As a result, many of them lose interest in themselves and tend to look into other aspects of their appearance; they simply cannot accept hair loss and treat it as something inevitable.
This obviously should not be the case with the kind of prescription medicines available […]
Michael Burson remembers having a good head of hair “back in the day.”
He laughs when he describes how he used to take his 1970s long-handled comb and run it through his feathered hair.
But along with disco music and those cool combs, Burson’s fluffed and feathered locks are gone.
“Those were great times,” the 47-year-old East Side […]
My 21-year-old granddaughter’s hair is falling out. She doesn’t know what to do. She had blood work done, and the doctor told her that her cholesterol is high. I told her I would write to you for help. I appreciate any help you can give. — R.W.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have a 25-year-old grandson who’s […]
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Dr. Kelly Hood, a Lafayette dermatologist of 16 years, will answer your questions from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday. She is a spokeswoman for the American Academy of Dermatology and has done research for the National Institutes of Health. Post your questions now or during the Q&A session. Look for a story about women’s hair […]
IT’S generally accepted that men go a bit thin on top, but women too can also lose their hair, making them feel less feminine and also lose confidence.
THERE are about 100,000 hairs on our scalp. Each hair grows for three years and then the follicle rests for a few months before the hair falls out […]
I have lots of baldness on both sides of my family. My hair has really thinned out at age 60. Is there anything affordable that the average man can purchase and take internally to stop balding and rejuvenate hair? — A.H.
ANSWER: Propecia is a prescription, oral drug that can restore hair growth for some men. […]
When you’re Jose Theodore, your life is a perpetually roiling raft trip through Class VI white-water rapids.
You party like a rock star. You hang with international starlets. Your photograph regularly adorns the covers of gossip tabloids. You become entwined in odd, out-of-the-clear-blue-sky scandals that always seem to have some sort of bizarre twist.
When you’re Jose […]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved first-time generic formulations for simvastatin 5-, 10-, 20-, 40-, and 80-mg tablets in the adjunctive treatment of various dyslipidemias to reduce the risk for coronary heart disease and cardiovascular events; finasteride 1-mg tablets for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia in men aged 18 to 41 […]