A man came to see me last week with a problem following his hair transplant at another clinic over a year ago. The surgeon told him that 6600 grafts were transplanted (in three sessions) using the follicular unit extraction (FUE) technique, which he guaranteed has a yield of over 90%. The patient wanted to know […]
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Imagine that your father and grandfather had prostate cancer and that you run a very high risk of developing the same disease. Rather than get tested to get a diagnosis for you in advance of getting this terrible disease, you decide to just wait until a cure is available. Then you die because the cure […]
I can joke about your plan, but there really is not much to say. I suppose you can do anything if you are really determined to do it. I am told you can even find instructions to build a nuclear bomb on the Internet. It is your body and if something goes wrong, you can […]
If another DHT blocker comes along with less side effects, you will be able to switch as long as it does block DHT. Dutasteride will retain benefits seen from finasteride (Propecia), but safety is still a concern of mine with dutasteride. Propecia is non-surgical (daily pill), and when hair cloning comes to be practical sometime […]
Update: See this post I think the FDA frowns upon companies that release information prematurely, which may impact the ability of those companies to get the FDA clearance they need from clinical trials. While I don’t know about legal restrictions, I doubt any company would want to publish such information early. These companies have a […]
I found an article (requires free login) about Intercytex’s death. Here’s a quote from the article: “Shareholders at Manchester-based medical firm Intercytex have approved its plans to sell off its assets and leave the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The shares will be canceled on January 8 and the company’s name will be changed to Regenerative […]
Although there’s enough political tension in the news lately to cause me to not want to delve into policy talk, I can avoid this topic fairly easily as I really have no idea about the political climate for stem cells. While it is an interesting question, I don’t even know that stem cell therapies hold […]
You are correct in stating that there really are only a few treatment options available. Medically there is Propecia and Rogaine. Surgically there is a hair transplant procedure. These treatments are not a complete solution in itself, but it does work with its own limitations. For the future, your guess is probably as good as […]
The following response is by UK-based physician Dr. Bessam Farjo: Response by: Dr Bessam Farjo United Kingdom Back in 2007 and early 2008, Intercytex genuinely believed that good news was around the corner. This was based on the very promising results of the laboratory work. What happened was that the positive results of clinical trials […]
This is in response to Why Don’t More Men Get Their Hair Back? — The amount of hair that is generally needed to give a man the coverage he wants/needs is upwards of 25% of his original density. As each man is different, the coverage of a single hair (one out of many) reflects: The […]
For Propecia results, I’d say 6-12 months. Benefits could be just halting the hair loss, not necessarily regrowth… so keep that in mind when you’re looking at results. Getting hair cloning to be effective and reliable is the first step. Making it available to the public is quite another. Maybe it’ll be ready in another […]
I just chaired the session at the annual ISHRS meeting in Amsterdam and had Dr. Coen Gho as one of the speakers. I had lost my voice, so I could not comment as the chair of that session, but considering that you asked me about him, I will use this as a forum to speak […]
While I have not been successful in cloning hair, I have successfully cloned myself. One of me does surgery everyday, the other writes blogs. I myself travel the world with my beautiful girlfriend(s) to really keep me busy and happy. And when my city needs me, I’m fighting crime as a superhero in Los Angeles. […]
If this company told you they could take a hair from the back of your head and multiply it to 70,000 hairs, then transplant it as needed (and their site says without surgery?)… then they’re either from the future or someone was giving you a line of bull. My guess based on the photos on […]
From the article: Read the full text at Xconomy.com We last heard some activity from the Follica folks last summer, when they got an extra $11 million round of funding in addition to the initial $5.5 million they received in early 2008. Now they’ve got a new CEO. What does it all mean? One could […]
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