After last week's surprising Oscar moment, alopecia and female hair loss has been on the tough of pop culture. Revisit these CosmeticsDesign articles to brush up on what's happening in the personal care side of this hot issue.
International beauty major L’Oréal has developed a method to identify the molecular signature of a person’s scalp in a common alopecic state, enabling prognosis and diagnosis, along with the development of efficacious cosmetic treatments for such hair...
Aclaris Technology has confirmed the acquisition of Vixens Pharmaceuticals – a company that holds the intellectual property rights to technology relating to Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors for the treatment of hair loss.
A group of scientists at the Columbia University Medical Center claim research they have carried out shows that suspending a certain family of enzymes in hair follicles can help restore hair growth.
Hair loss and skin disorder treatments have been given new hope after a US study identified a strategy for reversing hair loss after research into a gene that affects one type of baldness.
Hair loss remains a problem for many, but there have been major advances in the area of treatments, particularly in the last year that suggest it could soon be a thing of the past. Here's what the cosmetics industry has been working on...
Time to ditch the toupee: a study published in the Journal of Plastic Dermatology suggests that thymus peptides may be effective in treating male and female pattern baldness.
A plastic surgeon in Turkey claims that the effects of gravity may explain the apparently paradoxical effects of testosterone in male pattern baldness, or androgenic alopecia (AGA).
Thinning hair and pattern baldness are a big concern to many people, so it may come as good news that Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido has teamed up with a Canadian bio-venture company and begun research on a regenerative treatment.
A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered a protein that triggers hair loss by analyzing which genes are switched on when men start to go bald.
Indian scientists have found a natural-based ancient Ayurvedic
remedy for hair loss that outperforms the commercial competition,
cashing in on the growing popularity for natural products and the
extensive market for hair loss treatments.
Research work carried out on mice at the University of Manchester
has thrown up clues as to why some men go bald, something that
could give both drug-makers and hair care manufacturers
opportunities to break the male pattern baldness...
A caffeine extract has proved to be an effective ingredient in a
topical hair loss prevention shampoo treatment, research suggests.
Believed to be the only remedy to use this ingredient, the makers
claim that huge concentrations can...
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