Drug companies will stop a cure hitting the market

[jman91]

I am by no means a 'conspiracy theorist' but I would be lying if I said that I am completely comfortable that the drug companies intend to find an outright cure that could reverse baldness for anyone.

Firstly it was roughly 2009 when Intercytex was at the verge of perfecting their hair cloning research when Pfizer bought them out, swiftly putting the patent on the shelf.

does anyone know that real progress (not only in the science) but of treatments actually hitting the market or is there only ever promises of this will "be ready in 5 years" ets that time and time again seems to be all these people say.

sorry to be pessimistic but I just don't really buy that with expensive daily use products like rogaine, propecia, alpecin shampoo, nirozal, laser combs etc ....why would they just cure it

[gmonasco]

Firstly it was roughly 2009 when Intercytex was at the verge of perfecting their hair cloning research when Pfizer bought them out, swiftly putting the patent on the shelf.

Err, no. Intercytex's Phase II trials failed to pan out, and that trial (ICX-TRC) was sold to Aderans. Intercytex's Axordia stem cell therapy subsidiary was what was sold to Pfizer.

sorry to be pessimistic but I just don't really buy that with expensive daily use products like rogaine, propecia, alpecin shampoo, nirozal, laser combs etc ....why would they just cure it

Minoxidil is off-patent, finasteride's patent expires next year, laser combs are a niche product that don't have to be continually rebought, etc. The potential for one company to profit from a baldness cure is far superior to their sharing a slice of the current hair loss pie.

[ravegrover]

sad truth - no one has come out with cure for hairloss because no one has found one, yet.

[jman91]

gmonasco you are just saying i'm wrong by pointing out facts which you think are incorrect, but you haven't actually put forward anything to suggest there is real evidence that better treatments will actually come to market

[gmonasco]

gmonasco you are just saying i'm wrong by pointing out facts which you think are incorrect

Yes, when the arguments you muster in support of a point are proved to be incorrect, that results in a condition known as "You're wrong."

but you haven't actually put forward anything to suggest there is real evidence that better treatments will actually come to market

You're the one making the claim; it's up to you to provide the evidence to support it.

[jman91]

Yes, when the arguments you muster in support of a point are proved to be incorrect, that results in a condition known as "You're wrong."

No, there is a difference between picking apart details of an argument and responding to the point I'm making. You've just avoided coming up with an actual answer to the bigger question .The example I gave of Intercytex being forced by Pfizer to ditch their research may not be totally true as even though I have read it several times I accept my source is only other hairloss forums.

You're the one making the claim; it's up to you to provide the evidence to support it.

To prove me wrong you have to actually give me some evidence of your own! and before you start waffling on about me not having any real evidence I will clarify that I CANNOT FIND ANY EVIDENCE OF A PROMISE BEING DELIVERED IN TERMS OF NEW TREATMENTS. Again, the real point am getting at is all of these future treatments that people keep on referencing from this company and that company seem to only exist in the future and seem to all have the 'just 5 years away' tagline with them. DO YOU SEE???

(and by the way how do you know why they stopped their research? they would not exactly come out and say "sorry the big bosses of pharmaceuticals have deemed our research potentially harmful to their financial ambitions.")