Searching the internet for causes of hair loss can lead to some pretty stellar nonsense. We have no doubt you’ve seen random ...

Caps were unbearably hot for many nurses, and others suffered pain or even hair loss from the traction of the cap on their hair follicles. Taking one's cap off at the end of the day was a relief ...

The caps are white and starched, serving to keep hair out of the nurse’s face while she works. The caps evolved out of the habit of early Christian caregivers called deaconesses.

Hair loss is one of chemotherapy's most noticeable and despised side effects. Now U.S. researchers are about to put an experimental hair-preserving treatment to a rigorous test.

WASHINGTON - Hair loss is one of chemotherapy's most-despised side effects, not because of vanity but because it fuels stigma - revealing to the world an illness that many would rather keep private.

The article we published on Medscape in May 2011, What Happened to the Cap: The Dawn of the Cap, and the accompanying slideshows spanned the cap's heyday -- from the late 19th century until the ...

Cold caps tested to prevent hair loss during chemotherapy. Published: Jul. 22, 2013, 10:00 p.m. Dr. Hope Rugo, right, an oncologist and breast cancer specialist, demonstrates the use of the ...