Hair Loss

While the old adage “bald is beautiful” might appeal to some, for 9-year-old Julieta Mae Garcia, if you were to say that to her, she might give you the stink eye. Garcia, a fourth-grade student at Brookside Elementary School, suffers from...

It almost goes without saying that hair is huge business in Hollywood. Healthy, beautifully coiffed and colored locks are a key calling card for those in the spotlight. Exhibit A: Jennifer Aniston's headline-generating honey-blond shag, hyped year after...

We all know the face of stress: the clenched jaw, the furrowed brow, the intense stare. And, really, it's not a bad look. We all do some of our best work under pressure. Adrenaline and other stress hormones give us the kick start we need to meet deadlines...

The season finale of NBC’s “Parenthood” brings more than a little relief for Monica Potter. The 41-year-old actress has seen her character, Kristina Braverman, through an emotionally grueling season, complete with everything from a...

Dear Answer Angel: After many years of coloring my hair, I have let it go gray. I am happy with the result but I am wondering if I should purchase some new makeup to go with my new hair color. Maybe I should be choosing different shades of blush,...

She doesn't know how many women she has helped over the years. But, she does know that their numbers are growing. For a dozen years now, Suzi Williamson, 69, a breast cancer survivor herself, has been providing women cancer patients with free scarves,...

The ability to effectively communicate a complex idea is one of the many things that separate man from the lesser animals. Animals do communicate to a degree, like a dog that raises his hackles to make himself appear larger than he is to a potential foe,...

Latina Sethman-Benthall has no hair. By age 12, after several years of patchy hair loss, her diagnosis of alopecia universalis, an autoimmune disease that affects 5 million Americans — men, women and children — left her completely bald. For...

The cause for Alopecia Areata is unknown.  Doctors think it’s an autoimmune condition but they aren't sure, the one thing they do know, the condition causes hair loss. Amelie St. Romain was diagnosed at the age of two. That's where Locks of Love...

Despite its name, ringworm is not caused by a worm. Instead, it develops when fungus grows and multiplies on the skin. Dr. Dakara Rucker Wright, a dermatologist with the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group who practices at Kaiser Permanente's Towson...

A few years ago Sean McWalter noticed his hair was thinning—not much but enough for him to try the baldness drug Propecia. “Soon after I started taking it there was some noticeable side effects,” Sean said. “Mainly I just felt...

People with cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy may soon be able to check one side effect off of their list: hair loss. If the claims and study results are as good as they appear to be, patients can wear a cold hat during chemotherapy to prevent...