Baldness cure still ten years away:(

[fred970]

In a heartbeat: http://www.health.com/health/conditi...280091,00.html

"The good news is that psoriasis is manageable, manageable now to the point that for the majority of patients we can completely clear the skin of all skin lesions and do so fairly safely."

[DepressedByHairLoss]

That article is just so flawed that I do not take it seriously at all. I laugh when Dr. Leonard claims that a cure for baldness is at least a decade away. It seems like just about every hair transplant surgeon claims that a cure or a truly effective hair loss treatment is at least a decade away. It is so obvious to me why they all seem to concur on this: because this type of thinking furthers their financial interest. If a truly effective and less-invasive treatment for hair loss comes to fruition, these hair transplant doctors would lose large amounts of money and their clinics would likely even go out of business. So these doctors want hair loss sufferers to believe that better and less-invasive treatments are far from a reality so that these sufferers will rush out and get a hair transplant instead of waiting for much better treatments, which I am sure are not “at least a decade away”.

Second, I highly doubt that hair loss research receives more funding than malaria research. There are only a handful of companies in the entire world that are attempting to cure hair loss! Bill Gates cited some figure from the ISHRS, but I wouldn’t trust that organization to take out my garbage, let alone provide me with factual information. That organization has no quality standards for admission (they let virtually anyone in) as evidenced by the fact that many well-known hair transplant butchers are proud members of that organization. Hell, the president of the ISHRS is Carlos Puig and that guy has been butchering and disfigured patients for decades!

Lastly, Bill Gates is a total hypocrite. He rails against a system from which he has profited from more than any individual on this planet. Additionally, he has a full head of hair himself so he could not possibly comprehend the physical, psychological, and emotional suffering that hair loss causes.

[Kiwi]

Dr Leonard is a douche bag.

That 10 year figure is crap and doesn't take into consideration Gho or Histogen actually working.

Hair Transplant surgeons won't give new technology the light of day and I agree with a previous comment about the fefination of cure.

Psychological cure for me is halting my hair loss and adding enough density back over the years to allude / fake a full head of hair.

Why didn't he say that a cure for kiwi and millions of less precious baldies is closer then you think.

Anyway why the ****is bill gates saying anything at all about this???? And **** you and your 10 year bullshit statement.

[burtandernie]

For such a smart guy its a pretty stupid question. I mean MPB is way way more common then malaria is. Yes malaria is much worse, but baldness certainly affects the lives of men. I mean many cancer patients care more about the outward appearance of losing their hair then the fact they are actually dying.
So MPB is just way more common so there is more interest in it pretty simple really. Most men dont wake up and battle malaria.

Bill Gates: Why do we care more about baldness than malaria?

[garethbale]

I mean many cancer patients care more about the outward appearance of losing their hair then the fact they are actually dying.

I highly doubt that is the case!

[Dan26]

I saw Dr Robert Leonard back in 2007.. He's well respected in his field and probably knows hair loss more than anybody i know.

If he says its at least 10 years away, i trust his opinion.

Nothing anytime soon. This is balls.

He's a hair transplant surgeon, I doubt he understands much about the actual science behind hair loss.

[Space]

Kind of like asking why we spend more money on TV:s, boats, clothes or any other item or activity that increases your quality of life than on Malaria. Shouldn't working people be allowed to spend their own money on whatever they see fit? And why should hairloss cures be considered more unnecesary then other crap people spend money on.

[Kirby_]

I saw Dr Robert Leonard back in 2007.. He's well respected in his field and probably knows hair loss more than anybody i know.

If he says its at least 10 years away, i trust his opinion.

Nothing anytime soon. This is balls.

IMO, we don't need a literal cure as such in the medium term, the main priority is effective (and safer) treatments... If there was something that could regrow a decent amount of hair, preferably without daily or twice daily use, we'd be sorted.

[MackJames]

Microsoft spent billions on research and development and marketing on nonessential products mainly geared towards entertainment. This money could up have been spent on disease research. In short, **** him.

[burtandernie]

Yeah agreed Bill gates can shove it. That being said though I do respect his work on disease research by putting money and work into it. Its a good cause and he really is trying to help a lot of less fortunate people. Not everyone with his success would try to help less fortunate people.

[gmonasco]

Microsoft spent billions on research and development and marketing on nonessential products mainly geared towards entertainment. This money could up have been spent on disease research. In short, **** him.

Microsoft is a public company. The CEO of a public company is responsible to the shareholders; he can't just declare "Screw the profit motive -- let's spend our money on stuff that helps mankind instead" and stay CEO for very long.

[mpb47]

Lastly, Bill Gates is a total hypocrite. He rails against a system from which he has profited from more than any individual on this planet. Additionally, he has a full head of hair himself so he could not possibly comprehend the physical, psychological, and emotional suffering that hair loss causes.

Agree that he took advantage of the system - no doubt about it. He produced crappy products and got away with it. Did plenty of unethical things to word perfect, novell, netscape and who knows who else. But something happened to him when he got married circa 2000. His wife got to him somehow and changed him for the better. I don't know how, but she did and that is when he became a more respectable person.

And no , he does not have a full head of hair for himself. He has a huge baldspot and had not done anything about it. I have no idea if that was his wife's doing but he has not fixed it and you know he could in a heartbeat if he wanted to. Bill Gates was a bad person but somehow got fixed by his wife.

[win200]

Someone else said this, but the issue completely depends upon what the definition of 'cure' is taken to be. I think to most laypeople, a cure means a medicine that either transforms follicles to be immune to DHT or causes a man suffering hair loss to re-grow a full head of hair. If that's the standard, then sure, we're a long way away.

But most people on this forum take 'cure' to be 'donor regeneration,' which could enable us to have enough HTs to restore a full head of hair. I don't think members of the general public view multiple surgical procedures as a 'cure.' But that's what we're chasing, and there's a good chance that arrives within the decade.

[hellouser]

If this were a womans problem we'd have had a cure 50 years ago. Nobody gives a shit about mens problems. Everything male health related is a joke.

Bill Burr nailed it:

I think we get 1800 numbers, you [women] got ribbons, there’s groups; people give a shit. Anything happens to a guy, it’s just considered funny. Some woman cut her husband’s dick off, threw in the garbage disposal and turned it on. People thought it was hilarious, I mean, hey, hey, stumpy, nobody cares.

Do you think if a guy removed a woman’s titty and threw it in the drier anybody will be joking about it the next day? The entire country would grind to a halt; it’d be a moment of silence; the NFL would have some special colored headband everybody had to wear for an entire month. The most a-feminine color they could possibly come up with.

[NeedHairASAP]

If this were a womans problem we'd have had a cure 50 years ago. Nobody gives a shit about mens problems. Everything male health related is a joke.

Bill Burr nailed it:

Come on guys, he gives no reason for his conclusion, just "its ten years away". Why? Where is this forecast coming from? zilch facts or even going through his assumptions that lead him to his forecast. nothign. ]


this is just a filler article with a played out headline topic.