Happy New Year everyone!
Now that 2007 has officially passed (and for the record, it was a bad year for me), I am ready to meet the new year with optimism and a really big hello. HELLO 2008!
I thought I would share some of the things that I plan to work on this year

Blog at both Baldiness and CFS Squared with a whole lot more frequency. If you ever want to read something a bit different (but still me) come hang out at CFS2 and find out what sleepy people do for fun!
Drink a lot more water – which …read more

Production on the movie Harold, has recently been completed. This movie stars Cuba Gooding Junior as a janitor who befriends (and helps out) a pubescent boy (Spencer Breslin) who suffers from premature male patterned baldness. Producers are hoping that the film will be ready to show at this years Sundance Festival.
Would you be interested in spending your hard earned money to see this movie. Early buzz says its going to be great.
**picture source – www.FT.com

Last week on Oprah, a very special episode was aired. For the first time in 22 years, the audience was completely comprised of men. I know…unheard of, right. The reason for this was, Dr Mehmet Oz hosted the show entitled 300 Men Ask Dr Oz. One of the subjects discussed on this show was baldness.
According to Dr Oz (from The Oprah Winfrey Show),
Hair loss happens when two hydrogen molecules DHT (dihydrotestosterone) attach to testosterone. This poisons the hair follicles and causes them to change from making normal hair to peach fuzz like material, which is …read more

I just finished watching the movie, Evan Almighty – starring Steve Carell. Don’t worry, I won’t tell you my views on this movie. I don’t review movies in general, and definitely not Hollywood ones. However, there is a scene in this movie that made me think about hair. If you have seen the movie, then you probably know the one I am talking about.
It’s when Evan starts discovering the changes occurring around him. He is doing his morning grooming routine. As soon as he starts shaving, his hair grows back as quickly as …read more

Here’s an interesting looking book: Medicalized Masculinities, edited by Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher Faircloth. From the Book Description out at Amazon.com:
When medicalization—the characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailment—first appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science gender scholarship focused on female or genderless bodies. The work on men, health, and medicine was scant and tended to depict masculinity as intrinsically damaging to men’s health.
Medicalized Masculinities considers how these threads in scholarship failed to consider the male body adequately and presents cutting-edge research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. Renowned health and …read more

Ooohh… a new children’s book is out.

That’s the argument put forth by Drs. Bernstein and Rassman of Bernstein Medical in the latest issue of the journal Hair Transplant Forum. The journal is published by The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS), and the lead article this time around is “Densitometry and Video-microscopy.”
In the article the doctors argue that a close, clinical examination of a patients scalp has many benefits:

Better identification of good surgery candidates
Better forecasting of future hair loss patterns
Better understanding of the patients hair characteristics
Better planning of donor and recipient areas

This should be a no-brainer if you are considering hair transplant surgery. Make sure …read more

At least she has in Karen Boettcher-Tate adaptation of the fairy tale. The Phipps Center in Hudson, Wisconsin is presenting this new twist on the classic Grimm Brothers story later this month. Things start off commonly enough… Rapunzel’s dad gets nabbed for petty larceny by a witch and pays the standard first-born fine. After that it gets a little odd.
When the German brothers wrote the classic tale almost 200 years ago, they may not have imagined that their heroine would have the last name Schwartzbuckle. Nor would they have guessed that eyeglasses and baldness would figure prominently in the story …read more

Dead Famous: The Complete Series 2, starring our very own Ms. Porter, is now available on DVD in the UK. (Amazon US don’t seem to stock it.)
Look at that cover shot?

Gail before her alopecia. And such a serious look. I suppose it’s befitting a paranormal investigation.

Set your VCRs (or for those of you already in the 21st century “TiVos”), because NBC’s Today show will be discussing among other things the new laser comb in a segment on baldness.
Here’s the promotional teaser:
Is There A Cure For Baldness?
Baldness… some men embrace it… others, well… they try to hide it. Men try lotions and potions, even plugs. One company recently unveiled a new comb that stimulates growth. But is there really a way to cure the curse of genetics? We’ll look at this question tomorrow.
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