There is growing evidence that drug manufacturers are jumping into the lifestyle drugs due to increasing interest and spending in the said products. May they be in terms of sexual enhancement, receding hairlines, ever widening bellies and more, drug companies are into high gear to find the next breakthroughs at breakneck speeds. This might be [...]
Filed under: General, Hair Treatments, Trends on April 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
As of last year, the results of Phase 2A clinical trials are promising as the drug called NEOSH101, that has indeed shown increased hair growth from once a day applications. The clinical study was conducted in Germany, with 50 participants suffering from androgentic alopecia. The participants received either a placebo (for control) or once a [...]
Filed under: General, Hair Treatments on April 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals are investigating two more drugs that were initially developed for the treatment of asthma due to their smooth muscle blood vessel relaxing effects. The study is underway and they are still to establish the reason why the relaxing of blood vessels are playing an important part in hair growth drugs as with their [...]
Filed under: Hair Treatments on April 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
The procedure is revolutionary for it is less painful than traditional transplant technology. The technique involves transplantation of only the hair follicle itself without the surrounding tissue which has proven to be more successful in terms of fallout and rejection. The micro surgery is not only less painful, it also prevents the look of a [...]
Filed under: Hair Treatments, Trends on April 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Follicular Cell Implantation has been in the works for quite sometime and is promised to be the end of hair loss for the millions of sufferers worldwide. The process requires a single extraction process which takes genetic and cell information from the donor area to allow scientists to make exact copies of the healthy cells. [...]
Filed under: General, Hair Treatments on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
There are many causes of hair loss and one of them is genetics along with many others. But do you know that your lifestyle and stress levels can have an impact on how your hair grows? Experts have shown that there is a majority of people who do get baldness from stress along with other [...]
Filed under: General, Hair Care, Hair Treatments on April 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
The development of a technique to successfully clone the human follicle is the ultimate solution to hair loss, according to most hair experts. The extraction of one follicle would be enough to produce a whole head-full of hair eliminating the need to transplant individual hair follicles from thicker parts of the scalp. The technology is [...]
Filed under: General, Hair Treatments, Trends on April 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
Studies are showing that Low Level Laser Therapy (LLT) is proving to be beneficial for hair loss sufferers. The product comes in a comb with embedded laser diodes which emits low power laser light that has proven to strengthen hair shafts in clinical trials. Full immersion LLLT treatment which uses hair salon style appliances is [...]
Filed under: General, Hair Care, Hair Treatments on April 1st, 2008 | No Comments »