Allergy

Skin & Allergy News – Early balding may double prostate cancer risk

Monday, April 4th, 2011
Men with prostate cancer are twice as likely to have had male pattern baldness starting at age 20, according to results of a study that found no increased risk among men who began balding in their 30s or 40s. The findings, published in Annals of Oncology (doi:10.1093/annonc/mdq695), suggest that men with ...Continue reading »

Skin & Allergy News – Genetic baldness test

Thursday, August 19th, 2010
A new genetic test for predicting the risk of baldness is available from HairDX. According to the genetic test, a man whose father has any degree of hair loss, and who himself tests positive for a particular variant gene, has at least an 80% chance of experiencing some ...Continue reading »