In a clinic north of Baltimore, Myriam Lucia Vega Gonzalez meets patients every day of the week who have all types of hair loss. “It’s a very, very common complaint,” said Gonzalez, an assistant ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered Podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD’s Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Today we're talking about alopecia ...

If you’ve started to notice the early signs of hair loss, it’s easy to wonder what’s causing you to shed hair. Telogen effluvium and androgenetic alopecia are two common forms of hair loss. One causes ...

Learn which medications maycause hair loss—including retinoids, antidepressants, blood thinners, and more—and what treatment ...

If you’re reading this because you’re losing your hair, you’re not alone — hair loss is a common issue affecting more than half of men by the time they’re in their forties. The most common type of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many things, hair loss isn't one-size-fits all. And that's especially true in terms of where it occurs on the head. Maybe you ...

The last decade has witnessed significant developments in the understanding of the pathogenesis of alopecia areata, as well as the emergence of drugs which ...

Losing hair due to alopecia can be a distressing experience, and it’s common to wonder if hair regrowth is possible, but the answer to that varies depending on the type of alopecia you have. However, ...

Alison Richards first noticed her long, blond hair began to thin and then fall out in her 20s. "There was one day in the shower where I just had hundreds of strands of hair, like fistfuls of hair ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Phototherapy is an effective treatment for certain subtypes of alopecia areata (AA), especially when initiated early after disease onset. That's the key finding of a retrospective analysis of 49 ...