In the News – Fake Doctor Arrested For Telling MS Patient to Take Hair Supplement

Snippet from the article:

[Yevgeniy “Eugene”] Vasin charged $300 an hour to treat Cotter at his San Jose office and her home. Doctors at UC San Francisco said she had MS and put her on a regimen of medication, but Vasin told her that was wrong. He suggested she cut her medicine intake by half and injected her with vitamins. The injections included Cerebrolysin, a drug used outside the United States to treat Alzheimer’s disease, as well as baldness treatment Proserin and vitamin B-12, prosecutors said.

Read the full story — San Jose man charged with pretending to be a doctor

I assume the article is referring to Procerin, a saw palmetto-based tablet (if there’s a “Proserin” out there, I’m unfamiliar with it). Now I won’t debate whether Procerin works as a hair loss treatment, since regular readers already know my stance on saw palmetto… but I’ve not known it to be a suitable treatment for multiple sclerosis. Perhaps this fake doctor confused MS with BPH.