Japanese scientists generate human organ from stem cells (First time ever!)

[Arashi]

Minoxidil was approved for hairloss in 1988, but it was DISCOVERED in 1971 (!).

So 42 years have passed and we don't have anything better for regrowth than mediocre Minoxidil.

****ing joke

Stem cell research has been slowed down quite a bit by those religious delusional freaks believing in 2000 year old fairytales. Luckily, 6 years ago they discovered how to make stem cells from skin, they've now tackled all associated problems and are now ready to start testing it in humans. This is going to have HUGE impact for the future of regenerative medicine, including balding.

[Arashi]

And also keep in mind that both Fin and Minox never were designed to treat hairloss (but prostate problems and blood pressure problems if I'm correct). They just found out that as a side effect those medicines increased hairgrowth. Why minox grows hairs is even yet poorly understood.

[ar50]

Siriously : **** this world man. I really hate my life

[hellouser]

[KO1]

There's too many vested interests at play, pharmaceutical corporations, FUT surgeons, wig manufacturers, keeping us from having truly effective treatments let alone a real cure...

I disagree. Pharmaceutical firms are not investing in hair loss, but nothing suggests they're keeping us from having effective treatments. FUT surgeons - perhaps, but there's not much they can do to stop it. Wigs are a dying industry.


THE problem is pharma firms - they're not working on this. Otherwise, a number of promising compounds will have been on the market. The way I see it, we need non western firms to put these compounds through trials and avoid the FDA's prohibitively high costs entirely. Remember, hair loss is not covered by insurance, so pharma likely doesn't see a market.

[Pentarou]

I disagree. Pharmaceutical firms are not investing in hair loss, but nothing suggests they're keeping us from having effective treatments. FUT surgeons - perhaps, but there's not much they can do to stop it. Wigs are a dying industry.


THE problem is pharma firms - they're not working on this. Otherwise, a number of promising compounds will have been on the market. The way I see it, we need non western firms to put these compounds through trials and avoid the FDA's prohibitively high costs entirely. Remember, hair loss is not covered by insurance, so pharma likely doesn't see a market.

I just feel frustrated that the only 'new' products we have gotten for MPB since Propecia are dubious cosmeceuticals like Neogenic, and Avodart, which while proven to work, is not licenced for hair loss treatment and not legal to be prescribed for that purpose in many countries.

I agree that we need the non-western world to pioneer new techniques in ways that aren't possible in Europe and North America.