Susan Aldridge has a PhD in Chemistry and an MSc in biotechnology. Before taking up journalism, she worked for several years as a chemist for the Medical Research Council. Since 1988, she has worked as a freelance journalist. Her articles have appeared in many newspapers and magazines including New Scientist, Genetic Engineering News and The Guardian. She has written three books on genetics and biotechnology. Price: £10.95
					Hair Loss: The answers • Losing hair is a problem which affects two out of every three men and increasing numbers of women. • This publication is the first unbiased book to study hair loss from a scientific and practical point of view. • It looks in detail at what might cause hair loss and investigates what measures can be taken to help the condition. • From wigs to hair weaving, from drugs to hair grafting, from aromatherapy to Chinese medicine, this book studies all the options currently available. Chapter 1: What is hair? Hair under the microscope; how hair grows; what is hair for? Includes illustrations of the follicle and cross section of hair shaft. Chapter 2: Hair loss Genetic hair loss; telogen effluvium; anagen effluvium; alopecia areata; traumatic alopecia; with tables on telogen effluvium; drugs and hair loss and illustrations of the Hamilton Scale of male genetic hair loss and the Ludwig Scale of female genetic hair loss. Chapter 3: How hair loss affects you All in the mind? A problem of self-image; women suffer more; with a table showing the top 10 women’s complaints and a poem: Going Back to My Roots. Chapter 4: Self help for hair Handling your hair; you and your hairdresser; diet and lifestyle. Chapter 5: Remedies for hair Where to seek help for hair loss; investigating and diagnosing hair loss; overview of hair loss treatments; tablets and lotions; wigs; surgery; scalp cooling treatment in cancer chemotherapy; paying for hair loss treatments; how to complain; advertising; useless products; personal injury; further information on books, clinics and organisations. Chapter 6: The big cover up Acrylic wigs; real hair wigs; paying for wigs; hair weaving, bonding and ‘liquid skin’. Chapter 7: Surgery Hair grafting; case histories; hair flaps; step-by-step through hair surgery; how to find a hair surgeon. Includes figures illustrating donor and plug grafts, and scalp reduction and expansion. Chapter 8: Chemical cures Anti-androgen drugs; steroids; other drugs for alopecia areata. Related tables are included. Chapter 9: The best of the rest Complementary medicine; aromatherapy; herbs and homeopathy; hypnotherapy; nutrition based therapies; traditional Chinese medicine; exercises to increase blood flow to the scalp; electroTrichoGenesis. Chapter 10: In the pipeline 5-Alpha reductase inhibitors; oestrogen blocking drugs; growing hair in a test tube; gene therapy for hair loss?