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

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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.