Los Angeles, California, November 25th, 2008 – Richard Farrell, owner of Farrell Hair Replacement will be conducting Farrell personal design consultations in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego during December. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to have your hair loss situation solved by the master himself.

Los Angeles California, November 25th, 2008 – Richard Farrell, owner and Master Hair Maker of Farrell Hair Replacement wanted to get the truth out about what actual Farrell clients were saying about Farrell Hair Replacement.

Hair Loss Affects About 20 Percent of all Adults The average person loses between 50 and 100 hairs each day. As long as growth keeps pace with loss, a full head of hair is maintained. Excessive hair loss from the scalp is common, according to Richard Farrell, president and CEO of Farrell Hair Replacement (http://www.FarrellHair.com), a multinational company that has been providing hair replacement systems for 35 years. “About 20 percent of adults will experience significant hair loss at some point in their life,” Farrell says, “as a result of heredity, medical conditions and bad styling practices that damage hair.”

Los Angeles, California, October 14th, 2008 – Richard Farrell, owner of Farrell Hair Replacement announced today that he will be conducting his Farrell personal design consultations in London, UK and Dublin, Ireland in November 2008.

Los Angeles, California, October 8th, 2008 – Richard Farrell, owner of Farrell Hair Replacement announced today that he will be conducting personal no cost/obligation personal design consultations in Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County.

Richard first established his company in Hollywood which is the world's entertainment industry Mecca over 25 years ago. As a result, Farrell Hair Replacement has always catered to a clientele composed of numerous entertainment personalities who will not accept the embarrassment of wearing a bad hair system. They must look their best in order to survive in that super competitive world. The hair loss sufferers everywhere deserve to have the same quality hair systems as a Hollywood movie star.

female-pattern baldness Although less common, female-pattern baldness differs from that of male-pattern baldness in that the hair generally thins all over the head, but the frontal hairline is maintained. Female-pattern baldness rarely results in total hair loss.

While studying the role of stem cells in skin regeneration, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania medical center say they've been able to regenerate new hair follicles in adult mice. They weren't trying to cure baldness, but they say that they may have, by combining stem cells with a secret compound. This is different from hair loss drugs like Propecia and Rogaine, which help people maintain their hair but don't grow new hair. As Dr. Nancy Snyderman said, this treatment could be on the market for humans within three years.

Russell started to lose his hair seven years ago when he was 21. Now, having tried every spray and potion on the market, he's taking clippers to his head and shaving off his fringe of hair. Totally bald, he instantly looks 10 years younger than when he was clinging on to his last few strands. But he admits that it's been a tough journey to accept his bald state.

"Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. We meet a unique need for children by using donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure. The prostheses we provide help to restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers."

With a few bald patches on the back of her head, 9 year old Rio Jiminez knows she stands out. "Everybody started making fun of me like you don't have any hair and you're gonig to lose it all and you're weird," said Rio. Rio has Alopecia Areata. It's a genetic disease that causes patients to lose hair. It's an auto immune disease that attacks the hair folicles. It doesn't destroy them but disrupts them enough so they stop growing," said Dr. David Norris from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine.

Pregnancy can be another cause of local, temporary hair loss. One to five months after your baby is born, you may lose more hair from your scalp than usual. The loss of hair happens because during pregnancy more hairs go into a resting phase than when you are not pregnant. The resting phase is part of the normal growth and loss cycle of scalp hair. Six to twelve months after delivery your hair will become thicker again. The hair loss will not be permanent or cause obvious bald patches.

Hair loss is not a pretty thing. It can happen at any time, to anyone. There are many preconceived ideas concerning hair loss today. Many are unfounded, and discussed in our Top 10 hair loss mythbusters. Hair loss is a very common problem and nearly everyone will experience some sort of loss sometime in their lives. There are some hair loss treatments available today that actually work and keep the loss at bay.

Patients who are afflicted by the condition known as alopecia areata — patchy hair loss — should understand that there is “no reliable, safe, effective, long-term treatment,” said review co-author Dr. Mike Sladden, a dermatologist and senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania in Australia. Alopecia areata accounts for an estimated one in every 50 dermatologist visits in the United States and the United Kingdom, and one study suggests that 1.7 percent of people will be afflicted by it during their lives.

As long ago as 400BC, the greatest mind in medical history, the Father of Medicine, was studying the causes of baldness. Hippocrates - himself a sufferer of hair loss - noticed that eunuchs (castrated males) seemed able to keep their hair. The connection of harems and hairy men had been noticed by others too and the link between the male hormone, testosterone, and hair loss was first established. Castration of eunuchs prevented them from suffering androgenetic alopecia. However, this is not a treatment considered apropriate in modern times.

Alopecia, the excessive or abnormal loss of hair, can occur in both men and women. Many men experience androgenetic alopecia (AGA), known to the general public as male pattern hair loss or baldness. Women can develop a similar condition, known as hereditary thinning or female pattern hair loss (FPHL). Since the influence of androgens may be only one of several paths leading to patterned hair loss in women, FPHL may be a more accurately descriptive term until other mechanisms involved in normal aging and hair cycle disruption are clarified.

The human body is completely covered with hair follicles, except on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, genitals and lips. Hair follicles are pouch-like tubes of skin cells that contain the hair root. Most follicles are tiny and many of the hairs they produce do not grow long enough to protrude from the pore. Hair is made mainly of a protein called keratin. The only living part of the hair is the root (sometimes known as the bulb), which is anchored to the base of the follicle. The follicle supplies oxygen and nutrients to the root, and lubricates the hair shaft with an oily substance called sebum. Hair is in a constant cycle of growth, rest and renewal – it is natural to lose some hair each day. Hair grows in phases, with around one in ten head hairs ‘resting’ at any given time. The colour, curl, length, thickness and amount of hair depend on genetic factors.

Hair loss can occur as thinning hair or complete baldness. The hair loss may be on the head or any other part of the body that normally has hair, such as the eyebrows. What is going on in the body? There are many causes of hair loss. The most common form of hair loss is due to male pattern baldness, in which hair is lost from the front and top of the scalp. Other types of hair loss can create different patterns. Treatment depends on the type and cause of baldness. What are the signs and symptoms of the condition? The primary symptom is hair loss. Other symptoms can vary widely depending on the cause of the hair loss. Those with male pattern baldness have no other symptoms. The location of the hair loss also differs depending on the cause.

Hair Loss and Baldness affect approximately 20 million women and 40 million men in the United States. In a society often obsessed with physical appearance, losing one's hair can be very painful and can negatively affect self-confidence and self-esteem. Fortunately, losing your hair does NOT mean you must also lose your attractiveness, self-confidence, and social life. There are many things you can do to feel better about your hair loss and yourself.

"It's one of the leading ways people can establish their individuality and express their style," says Jerome Shupack, M.D., professor of clinical dermatology at New York University Medical Center in New York City. "Hair has had sociological importance throughout the ages." Because of its importance, anything that happens to our hair that we can't control--falling out or turning gray, for instance--can be the source of much anxiety. In the United States, some 35 million men are losing or have lost their hair from male-pattern baldness, according to the American Hair Loss Council. Approximately 20 million women have experienced a similar loss of hair (from female-pattern hair loss), and an estimated 2.5 million Americans have lost their hair due to other causes.

There are many causes of hair loss in men and women, including disease, nutritional deficiency, hormone imbalance, and stress. However, by far the most common cause is what is called adrogenetic alopecia. Alopecia is simply the medical term for hair loss. Androgenetic refers to the fact that both a genetic predisposition to balding, and the influence of androgens, or male hormones, play a part in this type of hair loss. In fact, there is a third factor, which is the passage of time, or aging.

For men who are concerned at the earliest indication of hair loss, it might be well to consider the last question first: “If I begin to develop male-pattern baldness, how soon should I begin to consider hair transplants?” The decision to have hair transplantation should not be made as a snap judgment. No ethical physician hair restoration specialist would allow you to do so. No one should use your concern about hair loss to sell or pressure you into a decision to have hair transplants.

On average, there are 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on the human scalp. The hairs grow from hair roots, or follicles (saclike structures under the skin). Blood vessels at the base of each follicle provide the nourishment necessary for hair growth. Hair growth in each root occurs in a cycle independent of the other roots. At any time about 90 percent of the hairs on the scalp are in the growth phase, while the other 10 percent are in the resting phase. The growth phase lasts an average of four to five years, after which the follicle enters the resting phase, which lasts about two months to four months. At the end of the resting phase, the hair falls out naturally and is replaced by a new hair. Consequently, some hair loss is a normal part of the hair growth cycle. In fact, on a typical day, about 50 to 150 scalp hairs are lost. Baldness (or alopecia) results when hair loss occurs at an abnormally high rate; when hair replacement occurs at an abnormally slow rate; or when normal hairs are replaced by thinner, shorter ones.

Throughout history, hair loss has been a prevalent issue for both men and women. Hair loss is a natural process that occurs in every 2 out of 3 men and 1 out of 5 women. In general, 60% of men are genetically programmed to lose hair while women lose hair mainly due to hormonal changes. In the past, people tried to compensate for hair loss by masking the changes. They used elaborate wigs, toupees or other hair systems that were glued to or woven into their hair to hide the obvious loss. These methods were only temporary and were often a great source of embarrassment to the person using them.

Alopecia falls in between specialties. Hair is part of the skin so is included in dermatology. Yet the cause of the most common form, androgenic alopecia, is internal: the actions of hormones which are the focus of a different specialty – endocrinology. Yet few endocrinologists are trained to diagnose or treat hair loss in women. This is unfortunately because bridging the gap between specialties has made it possible to apply new knowledge about hormones to understanding and treating androgenic alopecia. The ignorance among health professionals about the all too common and distressing condition of alopecia is truly astounding.

Carmen Armstrong's auburn hair was always very thick and shoulder length. But a few years ago, Armstrong, 60, of Freeport, noticed a change. Her hair started falling out. "My ponytail was half as thick. I was distraught, beyond rational," Armstrong said. "I had had a little piece of skin cancer taken off my cheek and that's serious, but hair loss ... my reaction to the thought of having no hair was 10 times worse than having a piece of skin cancer. "I was close to hysterics," Armstrong continued. "If you're a man and you're bald, it's one thing. But, if you're a woman and you're bald, it's, 'Oh, my God.'" Today, after about six months of treatment with a dermatologist who specializes in female hair loss, Armstrong's hair has stopped falling out and her doctor sees signs of new growth. She says she had an infection that affected her hair follicles and may have been stress-related.

The most common cause of hair loss during cancer treatment is from some type of chemotherapy. Not all chemotherapies cause hair loss; however, some always cause hair loss. Chemotherapies that are toxic to rapidly dividing cells are the most likely to cause hair loss. The hair follicle is composed of rapidly dividing cells, and therefore, is often affected as a side effect of chemotherapy. The hair loss can be on the head, chest, arms, legs, pelvic region and face. Hair loss is sometimes only partial. It may occur in only some regions of the body or may be a thinning of the hair. Hair thinning can make hair look "raggedy". Different people make different choices about how to handle partial hair loss. Some people prefer to have their head shaved to avoid the "raggedy" look. This also allows their hair to grow back evenly. Others want to maintain what ever hair they have. This is a personal choice. People who receive radiation to the brain also will experience hair loss as the radiation damages the rapidly dividing hair follicles.

The idea of HairSite Blog grew out of frustration, the frustration of searching for a simple hair loss solution on the Internet that was, well… impossible. So to help sort out all of the confusion that seems to invade ones browser when trying to research hair loss on the Internet, HairSiteBlog.com has added specific hair loss categories or tags such as “Alopecia Areata”, “Female Pattern Baldness”, “Hair Loss Diseases” and even “Eyebrow & Eyelash Transplants”. Combined with a powerful search tool (located at the top of every page) that highlights the words you searched for, making your search for any type of hair loss information easier and more accurate.

About 90 percent of hair on the scalp grows continually. The other 10 percent of scalp hair is in a resting phase that lasts two to three months. At the end of the resting stage, this hair is shed.

You might be surprised to learn that many people are unable to untangle fact from fiction when it comes to hair loss. Some of the blame lies with the many companies and individuals exploiting hair loss myths in order to sell bogus hair products.

Below the surface of the skin is the hair root, which is enclosed within a hair follicle. At the base of the hair follicle is the dermal papilla.

Hair loss due to disease, scarring and in particular, androgenetic alopecia, has troubled members of the human race since the dawn of history. A prescription for restoring hair is included in the Ebers papyrus of ancient Egypt which has been dated at 1800 B.C. (1)

There was a time, not too long ago, when baldness was something you lived with if you were a man, and covered with a wig if you were a woman. (Doctors estimate that one in every five women will experience some sort of hair loss.)