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Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): Asian men should kick the butt if they don’t want their locks to fall off, for a new study has stated that smoking might be the cause of age-related hair loss among them.

According to Lin-Hui Su, M.D., M.Sc., of the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, and Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen, D.D. S., Ph. D., of National Taiwan University, Taipei, the risk for the condition is largely genetic, however some environmental factors may also play a role.

“Androgenetic alopecia, a hereditary androgen-dependent disorder, is characterized by progressive thinning of the scalp hair defined by various patterns, ” the authors wrote as background information in the article.

“It is the most common type of hair loss in men”, they added.

New Delhi, Nov.

Seagate has launched its latest 1 Terabyte (TB) capacity hard drives ‘Barracuda ES.2’ and ‘Ba

London, Nov 20 (ANI): The right kinds of brain exercises can dramatically enhance memory and other cognitive abilities of older adults, according to a new study.

Karachi, Nov 20 (ANI): An infant that was strapped with bombs was used to carry out the October 18 bombing on former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming rally in which over 170 were killed, sources have said.

A man, carrying this infant, tried several times to hand over the child either to Benazir or any other Pakistan People’s Party leader close to her, but something always prevented him from reaching close by, The News quoted the sources, as saying.

“At the point on Sharea Faisal where the bombs exploded, Benazir saw the man with the child and asked him to come closer so that she could hug or kiss the infant. But someone came in between and a guard felt that the man with the child was not behaving normally, ” the daily reported.

Washington, November 20 (ANI): An experimental gene therapy has shown the potential to normalise brain function in patients with Parkinson’s disease in a study involving brain scans.