Bitmopost (allergen)

[Pate]

Good find, thanks for posting. 3 years still makes it about the nearest treatment on the horizon. Depressing as the thought is.

[Person]

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=SALP&date=20121030&id=15734030

search bimatoprost

Soo, they still have not analyzed phase 2 results. They will finish analyzing results in feb/march. If results are much better than minoxidil (as expected) then they will start preparing for a phase 3 trial. If not they will start preparing for a Phase IIb trial with a stronger formulation.

Summary: We are about 3 years away from it being on the shelf. So who cares.

[rdawg]

Hey guys,

Something that worries me about Bimatoprost and Prostaglandin analogues in general is their potential to cause skin pigmentation. A lot of glaucoma patients putting this stuff in their eyes, don't just get their iris colour changed, they also have a pigmented eye lids, which is darker than their natural skin colour.

Now if we're putting much higher doses on much larger areas, the potential for patchy pigmentation is quite high. Now that wouldn't be a problem if you have hair, but what if (what if) for whatever reason you give up on this treatment and you lose your hair. Then you may have pigmentations all over your scalp!!

Let's hope I'm wrong though

Well they have to test it for what, 3 years right? I'm sure this will be tested in the trials.

[Desmond84]

Also there will most likely be less sides, a huge factor for many.

Hey guys,

Something that worries me about Bimatoprost and Prostaglandin analogues in general is their potential to cause skin pigmentation. A lot of glaucoma patients putting this stuff in their eyes, don't just get their iris colour changed, they also have a pigmented eye lids, which is darker than their natural skin colour.

Now if we're putting much higher doses on much larger areas, the potential for patchy pigmentation is quite high. Now that wouldn't be a problem if you have hair, but what if (what if) for whatever reason you give up on this treatment and you lose your hair. Then you may have pigmentations all over your scalp!!

Let's hope I'm wrong though

[Conpecia]

Also there will most likely be less sides, a huge factor for many.

[rdawg]

Somehow I doubt Bimatoprost alone will be enought to grow AND maintain the hair without the help of finasteride.

But if yes, then brilliant!

There's still a few positive things involbed with bimatoprost though:

1. It's 100% going to be the next available product on the market, most likely launching in late 2014/earl 2015. (all other products will probably be a year or two after that, with Histogen being the frontrunner.)

2. It's going to be the 3rd FDA approved hairloss product(well all signs are pointing to this), the first in 15 years. Finally an alternative to Minoxidil.

3. Who knows what this mixed with Fin and/or Minoxidil can do? Not to mention maybe this will work better than minoxidil for some people!

I feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it's a slow wait for sure, but we're within reach, I'd say within 5 years alot of us will have at least some of our hair back.

[Pate]

I think it will probably be quite successful for female baldness. But MPB will probably be too aggressive.

But still, a good result in the lab studies. The reason you don't hear much about bim is because it's being developed by a reasonably big company. They don't need investors or to talk up their share price to raise capital like Replicel, Histogen or Cosmo. Corporate secrecy is much more important so they don't shout it from the rooftops. They will present when they need to in order to update their shareholders but not much more..

[TravisB]

Somehow I doubt Bimatoprost alone will be enought to grow AND maintain the hair without the help of finasteride.

But if yes, then brilliant!

[BoSox]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9637...baldness.html#

oh boy another cure!! we have had what 4 this year?
interesting read none the less

Great news, I have high hopes for this. With all the advancements recently, these companies can't afford to wait. Good for us.

[Dazza]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9637522/Eye-drops-could-be-a-cure-for-baldness.html#

oh boy another cure!! we have had what 4 this year?
interesting read none the less

[Thinning@30]

I thought Allergan would be presenting some sort of update of the phase II trials involving bimatoprost for scalp hair loss this month at the ISHRS conference. What happened?

[Rootzoost]

Some time in 2015 sounds more realistic to me

[rdawg]

What about the average FDA approval time of 9 months after Phase3 ends... then comes the production and it goes on the shelf. Right?

someone would have to clarify if that's true for every product, but that still means December 2014 or very early 2015.

[Person]

I'd say end of 2014 more likely, phase III begins in February, ends February 2014, a few months for production and you're talking probably august-october 2014 release.

What about the average FDA approval time of 9 months after Phase3 ends... then comes the production and it goes on the shelf. Right?

[Conpecia]

still haven't seen one photo of this working, haven't heard one success story around the web, haven't read any studies showing the efficacy...

not saying i don't believe it will work; i'd just like to see SOME sort of evidence.

guess we'll know where everything stands in the next two weeks.