"Wonder pill" to cure MPB in 5 years.

[BoSox]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/500588/Baldness-cure-here-in-five-years

Thoughts?

[Haircure]

Firstly, this wonder pill is for alopecia areata and not AGA. Secondly, this is more or less the same drug which was talked about in previous threads, and is basically an immunosuppressant which is used for rheumatoid arthritis and cancer treatments. Finally I just want to add as a suggestion, not to obtain sources from any type of news websites, because they are usually inaccurate in their headlines and present the same information over and over just to obtain more views.

[joachim]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/500...-in-five-years

Thoughts?

old news. was discussed already. it's for AA, and probably not suitable for MPB at all. even if there could be a small positive effect for MPB sufferers too, it will not come out within 10 years.

the 5 years timeline bullshit talk is the standard message which is used in such "hairloss breakthrough" headlines. the same bla bla as usual which pops up every three months.

[BoSox]

...but they stated for MPB.

[hosney7]

I think more details of that AA pill will be pressed at comming Ishrs
Hope we can get more good news from that conference

[Thinning@30]

This article is crap. It reads like it was written by someone completely uninformed on all the relevant issues. The writer fails to distinguish between alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia (male pattern baldness) and just talks about the "disease" of alopecia. The quality of press coverage of these things outside of the hair loss community is really quite low, and in my opinion, completely unreliable. Notice how every time there is any new discovery related in any way to hair loss, we get sensationalist headlines along the lines of "cure for baldness discovered!"

[hellouser]

This article is crap. It reads like it was written by someone completely uninformed on all the relevant issues. The writer fails to distinguish between alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia (male pattern baldness) and just talks about the "disease" of alopecia. The quality of press coverage of these things outside of the hair loss community is really quite low, and in my opinion, completely unreliable. Notice how every time there is any new discovery related in any way to hair loss, we get sensationalist headlines along the lines of "cure for baldness discovered!"

Meh, to be fair the quality of research from AGA sufferers isn't much better than the writers of the articles.

[Recidive]

Patent: Jak inhibitors for activation of epidermal stem cell populations

Meh, to be fair the quality of research from AGA sufferers isn't much better than the writers of the articles.

This recent patent suggests that this class of drugs work on MPB too...

Here is the link:

http://www.google.com/patents/WO2014013014A1?cl=en

[Jazz1]

We don't know yet if it may help for AGA, how do we know those guys who regrew hair alo never suffered AGA ontop of AA.

[Pentarou]

This article is crap. It reads like it was written by someone completely uninformed on all the relevant issues. The writer fails to distinguish between alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia (male pattern baldness) and just talks about the "disease" of alopecia. The quality of press coverage of these things outside of the hair loss community is really quite low, and in my opinion, completely unreliable. Notice how every time there is any new discovery related in any way to hair loss, we get sensationalist headlines along the lines of "cure for baldness discovered!"

The article is from the Daily Express newspaper. The Express is a downmarket imitation of the infamous Daily Mail(!), that fact-adverse and scientifically-incompetent rag, so yes it is crap. These two papers spew crap often, they push climate change denial, in the past they publicised the 'vaccines cause autism' scare, neither give a shit about writing accurate articles on science-related topics.

[burtandernie]

Is this just alopecia areata because it never really seems to say that. I think they are not primarily talking about MPB but still they mention it a few times and this article is august of this year. Sounds good to me and I do agree in the next 5-10 years there will be something significantly better than what we have. Getting closer to understanding areata might bring new insights for MPB into light too. We know a lot more now than we did 10 or 20 years ago
I dont know the reliability of this site others mentioned its garbage so maybe this is just hype filler to get clicks. They dont really say much specifics.

A “wonder pill” has been tested on three alopecia sufferers and restored the hair on all of them – and experts say a cure for male baldness is around the corner.
Yesterday, Mark Blake of The Trichological Society said: “It is a matter of time before we find a cure for male pattern baldness as well as alopecia. We know so much more about hair today and how it grows.
“We would like to think a cure could come within five years, definitely 10.”

[Kudu]

Lol, "5 years"...

[Swooping]

Is this just alopecia areata because it never really seems to say that. I think they are not primarily talking about MPB but still they mention it a few times and this article is august of this year. Sounds good to me and I do agree in the next 5-10 years there will be something significantly better than what we have. Getting closer to understanding areata might bring new insights for MPB into light too. We know a lot more now than we did 10 or 20 years ago
I dont know the reliability of this site others mentioned its garbage so maybe this is just hype filler to get clicks. They dont really say much specifics.

A “wonder pill” has been tested on three alopecia sufferers and restored the hair on all of them – and experts say a cure for male baldness is around the corner.
Yesterday, Mark Blake of The Trichological Society said: “It is a matter of time before we find a cure for male pattern baldness as well as alopecia. We know so much more about hair today and how it grows.
“We would like to think a cure could come within five years, definitely 10.”

Do you know what insanity is? It is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. In this case it would be believing this guy, they have been speaking like this since the 1970's . 45 years later, still pretty far from a cure.

[burtandernie]

I would agree that given the long history of MPB its hard to be optimistic. I do think though you have to try to stay positive to some extent even if the realistic part of you doubts the cure is coming soon. Maybe they is why they write these articles just to give men hope verses being realistic that there wont be anything in the next 10 years

[hellouser]

Do you know what insanity is? It is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. In this case it would be believing this guy, they have been speaking like this since the 1970's . 45 years later, still pretty far from a cure.

They're not just insane... they're also incompetent.