JAK-STAT Signaling Jump Starts the Hair Cycle
Over the past few years, I have discussed the janus kinase signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) signaling pathway a number of times. It has become of increasing importance in...
View ArticleKey Growth Factors in Platelet-Rich Plasma
I have mentioned platelet-rich plasma (PRP) in a dozen or so posts on this blog in the past three years, albeit some of those mentions were a small part of much larger posts. Although the positive...
View ArticleHairsite.com Finally Revamps its Hair Loss Forum
The new HairSite forum. HairSite Forum History When I first started reading about hair loss online around 15 years ago, my favorite place to visit was probably www.hairsite.com. At the time, it had...
View ArticleFollica Acronym’s its Hair Loss Product “RAIN” plus Other Company Updates
Follica RAIN Who else but commentator “Mike” to make us aware of the latest news about Follica? I am a bit annoyed that my google hair related alerts never give me the Follica information that Mike...
View ArticleFree PRP Treatment Session(s) Prize Drawing
Please read this post in its entirety. Also note that this blog has been having some issues lately with comment totals not updating until you refresh a few times or only if you use a totally different...
View ArticleBrief Items of Interest, November 2016
Hair loss news first: — A very busy month for Aclaris Therapeutics. First the company updated its product pipeline page and added photos for each dermatological condition that the company’s various...
View ArticlePRP Free Treatment Session(s) Winner Selection
Please post thoughts unrelated to this subject matter in the comments section of the prior blog post. I was surprised to get around 60 participants in the free PRP treatment prize drawing contest...
View ArticleTricopigmentation: A Temporary Form of Scalp Micropigmentation
During the past year, I have received a few requests to write a detailed blog post on scalp micropigmentation (SMP), sometimes also termed as scalp hair tattooing. Earlier this year, I told several...
View ArticleCyclosporine for Hair Loss Revisited
During the past several years, the single biggest breakthrough in hair loss treatments has been in the form of Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors curing alopecia areata (AA), alopecia totalis and alopecia...
View ArticleExtra Strength Minoxidil
2% and 5% Strength Minoxidil When Minoxidil was first approved by the US FDA to treat hair loss in 1988, it came in a 2% topical solution format under the brand name Rogaine. The product had been used...
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Brief Items of Interest, December 2016
Hair loss news first: — As expected, on November 30th the US House of Representatives passed the groundbreaking 21st Century Cures Act with a high level of bipartisan support. This Act has been...
View ArticlePoll — How Much Would you Pay for a Hair Loss Cure?
Note: Voting buttons are below each of the two photos for the two polls and you can only vote once via hovering over and then clicking on the appropriate row (you can only see vote totals in each row...
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Joe and Spencer — Part Deux
I was considering writing my final post of 2016 on things to look forward to in 2017. However, I felt it would be somewhat repetitive in nature. New announcements from any of the companies mentioned in...
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New Study Shows Ten Percent Increase in Hair Count at 24 Weeks on Dutasteride...
Dutasteride 0.5 mg per day Significantly Superior to Finasteride 1 mg per day at Regrowing Hair Dutasteride 0.5 mg per day Significantly Superior to Finasteride 1 mg per day at Regrowing HairA new...
View ArticleThe Arrector Pili Muscle (aka the Goosebump Muscle)
Several weeks ago, the arrector pili muscle got significant coverage in a few newspapers around the world. Famed Australian dermatologist Dr. Rodney Sinclair co-authored an important paper titled “The...
View ArticleBrief Items of Interest, January 2017
Hair loss news first: — Replicel’s CEO provided a detailed 2017 forecast, and this was followed up by the release of an important PowerPoint presentation in which the company summarized final 5-year...
View ArticleKenogen: A New Phase of the Hair Cycle?
Earlier this month, an interesting new study was published in the Experimental Dermatology journal by UK based scientists. The title of this study was “Hair regrowth in male and female pattern hair...
View ArticleQuestions for Dr. Alexey Terskikh
I have covered Dr. Alexey Terskikh (who works at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in California) a few times in the past on this blog before. My main post on him and his pluripotent stem...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Physician Claims that the President Takes Finasteride
Donald Trump’s somewhat crazy (but still believable) long-time physician Dr. Harold Bornstein just claimed to the New York Times in several interviews that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Bornstein take...
View ArticleReplicel CEO Lee Buckler Addresses us Directly
I have always assumed that Replicel probably gets a ton more questions on social media about its hair loss related work versus its tendon repair and skin generation related work. Nevertheless, I do not...
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