New approach to baldness

The Washington Post
May 2006

Common wisdom has it that male-pattern baldness is inherited from your mother's side of the family tree, but it isn't necessarily so, according to Robert Weiss, a cosmetic dermatologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

"You're probably in trouble, though, if both your mother's side and your father's side are bald," Weiss told the Ivanhoe.com medical news service last month.

Weiss is currently studying a new way to stimulate hair growth using a device that emits low-energy red light to energize hair follicles.