Article: Into Thin Hair.(hair loss treatments)(Brief Article)

If your crowning glory isn't so glorious anymore, don't panic. You can look to new and better treatments to give hair loss the heave-ho.

ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF WOMEN over 50 suffer the demoralization of thinning hair, according to the American Hair Loss Council. "By the time you're 50, you have roughly 50 percent of the hair you started with," says John E. Wolf Jr., M.D., chief of dermatology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. While men experience receding hairlines and bald spots, for women it's diffuse thinning all over the scalp, usually the result of declining estrogen levels and other normal changes of aging. Here's what to do if you notice a thinning ...

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