What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ I’m a 30-year-old woman and, since December 2003, I have suffered from hair-follicle abscesses at the back of my head (folliculitis) and ringworm on my forehead. Recently, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).
Before the menopause, I was a healthy outgoing person. I ate a well-balanced diet, took vitamin, mineral and fish-oil supplements,
A reader last time wanted to know if anyone had any experience of using magnet therapy for hair loss in women. Unfortunately it's a question that has failed to attract any responses (yet), but your ideas about hair loss and regrowth continue to come...
Finasteride is a drug hailed as the great new hope to combat prostate cancer. And its standing won’t have been dented by a major new study that concluded that the drug can, indeed, prevent or at least slow the cancer. The Prostate Cancer...
I was diagnosed in April last year with polymyalgia. It came on suddenly overnight; having gone to bed the night before perfectly well, I woke up with severe pain in my head, temples, forehead, neck and the base of my spine.
Around 95 per cent of all hair loss is caused by androgenetic alopecia, or ‘male pattern baldness’. This form of hair loss, which can also affect women, albeit to a lesser degree, occurs when testosterone is converted into another male hormone...
Eyedrops are often considered a benign treatment, and their side-effects on the rest of the body are vastly underappreciated.
Q In WDDTY vol 5 no 3, your cover story on power lines gave evidence that exposure to electromagnetic fields was harmful to people, particularly children. I was wondering whether electromagnetic fields
A kinesiologist writes in about a similar case that she was able to successfully treat. The case involved a seven-year-old boy who had been prescribed steroids for hair loss.
There have been a few questions recently about hair loss, including the use of magnet therapy to restore hair growth, and especially after the menopause. The woman who first raised the problem about hair loss in a young man, whose problem went back...
