Predicting your susceptibility to baldness: The $399 DNA test

Learning and sharing your genetic secrets are at the heart of 23andMe’s controversial new service — a $399 saliva test that estimates your predisposition for more than 90 traits and conditions ranging from baldness to blindness.

Baldness and enlarged prostate go together, researchers say

Male-pattern baldness and an enlarged prostate go hand in hand, Spanish researchers reported Monday at a San Francisco meeting of the American Urological Assn. The findings hint that early hair loss could be sign that men are going to develop prostate disease and that preventive treatment should be begun, they said.

Low Iron Could Help Spur Baldness

Could iron deficiency be key to baldness? The answer is yes, according to researchers at the Cleveland Clinic, who reviewed scientific literature on the connection published over the past 40 years.

New screening test to predict predisposition to baldness

The Genetic Test for Hair Loss is a simple painless non-invasive procedure that determines an individual’s genetic susceptibility to baldness.

New hairloss treatments open on stock exchange at $0.30

Divine Skin Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: DSKX), which targets hair regrowth head-on, opened its first day of trading up at $0.30. The newly public company evolved out of its flagship brand, DS Laboratories, which grew quickly without investment capital until 2009, when it conducted a private placement.

Stem cells regrow crucial hearing cells in mice

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stem cells can be coaxed into becoming the hair cells deep inside the ears that are destroyed in hearing loss, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.