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Baldness

Hair: Chewbbaca or Bruce Willis?

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 04.25.2013 | Comedy
Maggie Van Ostrand

From the hairless pates of medieval monks to long-haired hippies to Hip-Hop cornrows, hair has always been as much on our minds as on our heads.

Bald Is Beautiful?

Lindsay Goldstein | Posted 06.18.2013 | Healthy Living
Lindsay Goldstein

Women in today's society have an inherent attachment to long hair. But being a bald woman -- or even just rocking a buzz or pixie cut -- is a sign of inner strength. It defies society's expectations -- and that takes guts.

Solar Sex Panels and Heart Disease: Do I Have a Disease or a 'Condition'?

Craig Bowron | Posted 06.10.2013 | Healthy Living
Craig Bowron

Until association is replaced by causation -- i.e., treating balding is shown to lower the risk of heart disease -- I'll continue to consider my male pattern hair loss to be a cosmetic issue, and a receding one at that.

Bald Men Have A Higher Risk Of This Health Concern

Posted 04.05.2013 | Fifty

Men who are losing their hair may have bigger concerns than just their looks. A new study finds that balding men share a greater risk of having a hear...

Hair Loss May Signal Cancer Risk, Study Says

Posted 03.26.2013 | Black Voices

French researchers said it, and now a team from the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelph...

Things That Drive Me Up The Wall

Laverne H. Bardy | Posted 03.20.2013 | Fifty
Laverne H. Bardy

I never cease to be amazed by some of the things I read, hear and observe. Television commercials in particular cause me to scratch my head and ponder. It boggles my mind to realize that before these are released to the public they're actually approved by an infinite number of people.

How Does It Feel To Be Bald?

Quora | Posted 02.26.2013 | Home
Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Oliver Emberton, founder of Silktide I've been completely bald since I was nineteen. If...

Donald Trump Offered Hair-Raising Five TRILLION Dollars to Reveal All!

Martin Lewis | Posted 12.24.2012 | Comedy
Martin Lewis

Donald Trump has the least transparent hairdo in the history of this country. There's never been anything like it. Sadly we know very little about the Donald's hair and he has spent millions of dollars on hair products to make sure it stays that way. So, I have a deal for the Donald -- a deal that I do not believe that he can refuse.

Parting Ways: A Brief Look Into Male-Pattern Baldness

Brian Secemsky, M.D. | Posted 12.11.2012 | Healthy Living
Brian Secemsky, M.D.

To understand male-pattern hair loss, properly known as androgenic alopecia, one must understand the life cycle of a normal scalp full of hair.

Where Are All The Hot Bald Guys?

The Huffington Post | Ann Brenoff | Posted 08.07.2012 | Fifty

"I just think it looks so manly. It's smooth and I like to pet his head -- kind of like a cat. It's more intimate."

I'm With Stupid: Good Night, and Don't Let the Bedbugs Paralyze

Todd Hartley | Posted 02.15.2012 | Comedy
Todd Hartley

There are even some advantages to being bald and hairy at the same time. In the shower, if I only have one bathing product, I'm covered. Now, however, there's something else we can take pride in: "hairier skin may be the key to avoiding being bitten by bed bugs."

PHOTOS: In Honor Of Bald And Free Day, Our Favorite Shiny-Topped Stars

Posted 10.14.2011 | Fifty

Untie that headscarf and remove that toupee -- Oct. 14 is "Bald and Free Day"! Today, we tip our hats to the bald and beautiful, saluting those of...

WATCH: The Most Moving Breast Cancer Awareness Ad We've Seen All Month

Posted 12.13.2011 | Women

Creating a hopeful commercial about cancer is fraught territory, but advertising agency BVK’s ad for the University of Oklahoma's new cancer centre ...

PHOTOS: Did George Costanza Grow Hair?

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick | Posted 11.28.2011 | Style

It has come to our attention that George Costanza has hair. While we don't normally keep such close tabs on George -- er, Jason Alexander, the New ...

Moneyball? How About Hairyball?

Alan Black | Posted 01.23.2012 | Sports
Alan Black

Cruelty in song has always been part of the soccer fan, stadium tradition.

Cure Baldness, Kill Literature?

newyorker.com | Posted by Ian Crouch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Eryn Green writes this week at Esquire about research regarding stem cells and male pattern baldness, pointing to a recent study from the University o...

Hair Transplants Up, Some Baldness Drugs May Be Dangerous

The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

More and more men are going under the knife in pursuit of a full head of hair, new data shows. The report, released today by the American Society of ...

Scientists Find A Possible Treatment For Baldness

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Gone could be the days of toupees, combovers and hair plugs. For mice, at least. Researchers at UCLA who set out to study a stress-blocking chem...

I'm 25-Years-Old and My Hair Is Falling Out

George Zaidan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
George Zaidan

Hair loss is supposed to be hereditary, but both my parents are still actively sprouting, and my Dad is in his seventies. What gives? Well, according to new research I can only blame myself.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

Because there's no single cause for alopecia, many myths have emerged to explain it, along with a raft of specious cures.

Bald Is Not Beautiful: Confessions From the Fringe-Worthy

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Tom Alderman

"Bald is hot," an article in the New York Times recently announced. We bald guys hear this kind of hype all the time, "Bald is cool, bald is beautiful" -- but only from people who are not bald.

Hair Loss: Best Treatments, Baldness Cures TESTED

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Consumer Reports has published the results of a new 8,000-person survey about the effectiveness of different baldness treatments. The report is passwo...

Baldness 'Could Be Good For Your Health' Say Scientists

BBC News | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine studied 2,000 men aged between 40 and 47. They were able to link high levels of the ma...

Iran, North Korea and the Technology Fantasy

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Michael B. Laskoff

I believe in the power of technology. I'm typing this blog on my laptop while sitting in a café, something that would have been considered extraordin...

Larry David: "Help A Bald Brother Out" For 'Stand Up To Cancer' Campaign (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Huffington post blogger Larry David of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame has released a video in which he states "Cancer has many victims, I shou...