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Baldness treatments
Proven baldness treatments
continue to be an area of
research that receives a
large amount of funding.
More than half of men are
affected by male pattern
baldness by age 50. It is
easier to prevent the aging
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Baldness
Alopecia, commonly known as
baldness, is a set of
disorders which involves the
state of lacking hair where
it would normally grow,
especially on the head. The
most common form of baldness
is a progressive
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Hair follicle
A hair follicle is part of
the skin that grows hair by
packing old cells together.
Attached to the follicle is
a sebaceous gland, a tiny
sebum-producing gland found
everywhere except on the
palms, lips and soles of the
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Hair
Hair is a filamentous
outgrowth of the skin found
only in mammals. The speed
of hair growth is roughly 11
cm/yr. The average human
head has about 100,000 hair
follicles. Older people tend
to develop grey hair because
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