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Researchers enrolled 182 women being treated with chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer and assigned them at random to two groups. One group wore a scalp-cooling cap during their infusions. The o...

A group of dermatologists pulled together what has been published on low-dose oral minoxidil, the pill version of a drug that started life as a blood pressure medication and is now prescribed for hair...

This is the trial sitting underneath most of what gets said online about rosemary oil. Researchers took 100 men with pattern hair loss and split them at random into two groups for six months. One grou...

Researchers followed 42 people with seborrheic dermatitis, the medical name for the flaking, itching and redness most people call dandruff. Everyone used a medicated shampoo for two weeks first. After...

Two dermatologists went through the published research on traction alopecia and pulled it together into one review. Traction alopecia is hair loss caused by sustained pulling on the follicle, the smal...

Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville reviewed 23 years of patient records, from 2000 to 2022, to compare one kind of hair loss against the others in its family. The condition is central centrifu...

Researchers pulled together 12 separate randomized trials covering 631 people with pattern hair loss, then looked at all of those results as one combined picture. Randomized means each person was put ...