Study: Drug May Help Female Baldness

BOSTON -- A new study reveals a prescription drug used to treat male pattern baldness may also help women.

Italian researchers gave 37 women with thinning hair Propecia for a year and found improvement in hair growth in 62 percent of them.

The women also took birth control pills, which is important because Propecia has been associated with birth defects.

About half of all women will experience hair loss at some point in their lives, Boston television station WCVB reported.