2013

[thechamp]

2013 and propecia and minoxidil and nizoral are our best options how pathetic when is this going to change !!

[john2399]

It is just pathetic.

[youngsufferer]

Mommy take care of me! Take care of me while I lay here and do nothing! You're not doing a good enough job!


No wonder our culture gets away with shaming baldness, look at how whiny bald men are.

[hellouser]

Dr. Roland Lauster needs to be given the go ahead and turn his findings into a treatment and a consumer treatment. The guy basically has the final answer but all this legal maneuvering he's gotta go through is whats holding us back.

[Pate]

Dr. Roland Lauster needs to be given the go ahead and turn his findings into a treatment and a consumer treatment. The guy basically has the final answer but all this legal maneuvering he's gotta go through is whats holding us back.

The other thing that is depressing, apart from the legal and administrative red tape they have to go through, is how hard it is for them to get funding.

Only Aderans has had enough funding. It really shows how nobody really believes any of them will find a true cure - because a true cure or even just a truly effective treatment would be a no-brainer of an investment.

But nobody wants to give them money, so obviously nobody believes they can do it.

[jgold]

we should form a posse / gang to force them to make us something that will work or help. realistic?

[Pate]

No wonder our culture gets away with shaming baldness, look at how whiny bald men are.

I think you're confusing cause and effect there. Bald men are whiny and depressive because of the constant stream of shaming they have to put up with.

It is a pretty sad state of affairs though. It's been recognised for centuries that a baldness cure is a surefire path to riches, yet we're still here where the gold standard pharmacological treatment aims to simply delay your hair loss by a few years.

We've seen so many treatments since Propecia came on the market that promised to be better but faded into obscurity. The only one that seriously looked like it would challenge Propecia was RU, and the companies that have held the patent have sat on it for almost a decade now, forcing us to get it via slightly less-than-legal means, with no oversight or quality control.

And now we're still looking at 2015 at the absolute earliest before we get a new product, which will probably just be bimatoprost.

I'd say baldies have a lot to be bitter about.

[Tracy C]

It is just pathetic.

Not long ago, it was not possible to do anything about hereditary hair loss. Hereditary hair loss is not a disease. It is a natural and normal human trait. Like it or not, that is the truth about it. The only reason the medical research community has done anything about it at all is because of the profit potential that exists. Treatments for hereditary hair loss will get better - but development will continue to take a back seat to more life threatening conditions. It just is what it is.