Posts Tagged ‘hair loss’
What are the best shampoos if you are losing your hair?
Recently Dr. Wasserbauer was interviewed about hair loss and shampoos. You can read the story on Hair loss shampoo – If you finish every hair wash day by cleaning up an alarming number of fallen strands from your shower drain, you’re not alone. Hair loss is a common issue that can be caused by chronic…
Read MoreFDA Stem Cell Update
Practitioners offering unproven and unapproved STEM CELL treatments for hair growth should be on notice: the FDA has started to bump up its regulation.
Read MoreCrown Hair Transplant – Case Study
58 year old male, Norwood IV, he had become very self conscious of his hair loss and was uncomfortable with people standing behind him. After seeing a photo of the back of his head in a crowd he decided to have hair transplantation. His donor hair had above average density and hair quality based on volume and waviness was very good.
Read MoreFDA issues a class-wide safety alert for all testosterone-containing medical products
The FDA recently issued a class-wide safety alert for all testosterone-containing medical products. Not only is it associated with abuse and dependence, but it can have “serious adverse outcomes include heart attack, heart failure, stroke, depression, hostility, aggression, liver toxicity, and male infertility. Individuals abusing high doses of testosterone have also reported withdrawal symptoms, such as depression, fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite, decreased libido, and insomnia.”
Read MoreVitamin D – The New Baldness Cure?
New evidence for the benefits of vitamin D supplementation and the risks of having Vitamin D deficiency have been in vogue in the medical literature for the last 2-3 years. Aside from its important role in bone metabolism and calcium absorption, new evidence is showing that the vitamin D receptors in hair follicles have a…
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