Study Offers New Hair Loss Test

Worried about hair loss? A new test may suggest whether the number of hairs you lose is normal. Researchers did a study with 60 white men who did not appear to be balding. Ages ranged from 20 to 60. They washed their hair three days in a row with the same shampoo. On the fourth day, they combed their hair over a towel for 60 seconds and counted the hairs that fell. They did the combing for the next two days as well. Researchers concluded that loss of 10 hairs in this test is normal. HealthDay News wrote about the study June 16. It was published in the journal Archives of Dermatology.