A bad night’s sleep, or several of them, can be very stressful. Sometimes, it is enough to make you feel like ripping your hair out. But is it enough to make your hair fall out? It actually can be! You may have heard that science says we replace every cell

Hair loss after chemotherapy is a well-known side effect of the medication, but many people are unaware that other medications can have hair loss as a side effect. When we are working toward better health, it can be devastating to find out that the medication meant to make us feel

In the classic song from “South Pacific,” the heroine decides to “wash that man right out of her hair.” But getting rid of the things that can contribute to your hair loss is not quite that simple. Dihydrotestosterone, sometimes referred to as DHT, is known to shrink hair follicles and

It is usually in high school when we start learning about genetics. Such as how blue eyes are a recessive gene. So is the ability to roll your tongue. We move on to fruit flies and then we start discussing sex-based genetics like male pattern baldness. The problem is that

The correlation between hair loss and diabetes is widely accepted when it relates to androgenic alopecia, but some evidence suggests that it may also make some forms of scarring alopecia more prevalent.

Sometimes a rash is more than just a rash. Lichen Planopilaris is one of those situations. Lichen planopilaris is a rare disease that appears in adults and seems to be most common in middle-aged women. But it is so rare that it is still being studied to learn more about