PolarityTE Update
I first covered the exciting new company known as PolarityTE (stock ticker = COOL) in the middle of last year. The company was in the news a lot in 2017, primarily because of its miraculous (assuming...
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Are Men Losing their Hair Earlier than in Past Generations?
For many years, I have observed that men seemed to be losing their scalp hair earlier than in past generations, and also in far greater numbers. I have also seen this phenomenon in women in more recent...
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Brief Items of Interest, January 2018
— Kerastem STYLE phase II clinical trial results update. Somewhat positive news of 17 percent increase in hair count at 6 months post-treatment. However, they only treated men in the early stages of...
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Donald Trump Definitely Takes Finasteride
In the past, there were rumors that president Donald Trump took Finasteride for his hair loss, and I wrote an entire post about that here. However, those rumors were based on interview claims in 2017...
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Prince William Shaves his Head
The global media loves to discuss celebrities and their hair, especially when the said hair is thinning or changing in appearance frequently. Since I first started this blog in 2013, the two...
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Poietis: 3D and 4D Bioprinting of Skin Tissue and Hair
Poietis is a relatively small 25-employee France based company that is active in the 3D and 4D laser bioprinting sector. The company only commenced operations in 2014 and its main current focus is in...
View ArticleSingapore Institute of Medical Biology
For a long time I have wanted to write a post on hair loss research at the Singapore based Agency for Science, Technology and Research (also known by the creative acronym A*STAR). I have even listed it...
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Large-Scale Production of Hair Follicle Germs for Regenerative Medicine
I have covered Dr. Junji Fukuda and his important hair related work at Yokohama National University in Japan several times on this blog in the past. Most recently, this was just two weeks ago in...
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Hair Transplant Gone Wrong
I have discussed hair transplants on this blog many times in the past. Modern day hair restoration procedures usually provide very satisfying results when performed by reputable accredited hair...
View Article2018 AAD Annual Meeting
The field of dermatology is quite vast and encompasses diseases and conditions of the nails, hair (both body and head), scalp and skin. Nevertheless, at the annual meetings of all the major...
View ArticleAclaris Expecting Phase 2 Clinical Trial Data on AGA by mid-2019
Every time I hope not to write about Aclaris for at least two months, I get disappointed. A very welcome disappointment of course. While this trend has been going on for two years, the past three...
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Follicum, Follica and French Fries in February 2018
Follicum I am on Follicum’s mailing list and the company had four significant developments during the past month that were deemed worthy of e-mailing to subscribers: On January 18th, Follicum announced...
View ArticleAshton Kutcher Took Avodart for 10 Years
For those who read this blog regularly, you might have noticed that I have an especially keen interest in the drug Avodart (Dutasteride) because for a large number of people it is currently the best...
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Silvio Berlusconi: Excellent Hair Transplant or Something Else?
Before there was Donald Trump, there was Silvio Berlusconi. Mr. Trump’s first time ascendancy to the US presidency in 2016 came at what most pundits at the time considered the old age of 70. However,...
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Artificial Hair Implants
Several years ago, I considered writing a post on artificial hair implants (also known as synthetic hair implants or prosthetic hair). However, upon initial research, I read some major horror stories...
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March Madness 2018 in the Hair Loss World
— I covered Dr. Lu Le in detail in May of last year due to his team’s groundbreaking discovery related to Krox20 and its impact on hair growth and hair pigmentation. In a new video interview Mr. Le...
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Valproic Acid and Hair Growth
Last year, I discussed new groundbreaking research from South Korea in relation to the development of a new peptide called PTD-DBM that could activate the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and accelerate hair...
View ArticleFat or Bald?
I have started a poll (embedded at the bottom of this post, but takes a long time to fully load) on Twitter and you can vote if you have an account on there. Note that your response is anonymous on...
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Two Decades of Quotes from Dr. George Cotsarelis
University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. George Cotsarelis is a legend in the hair loss world. He has been the most quoted hair loss researcher in the world over the past two decades, although Dr. Angela...
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Receding Hairline: Stages, Causes and Treatments
Stages Causes Treatments Hairstyles Receding Hairline Stages in Men Male Receding Hairline A receding hairline is typically used to describe the progressive pattern and nature of male hair loss. The...
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