{"id":1052836,"date":"2010-08-17T04:23:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T04:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/non-surgical-baldness-treatments-rated-ineffective-by-most-patients\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:46:17","slug":"non-surgical-baldness-treatments-rated-ineffective-by-most-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/non-surgical-baldness-treatments-rated-ineffective-by-most-patients.php","title":{"rendered":"Non-surgical Baldness Treatments Rated Ineffective by Most Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/497f1_220px-Finasteride.svg.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/497f1_220px-Finasteride.svg.png\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Only 27% of men who used Propecia (finasteride) said it was &ldquo;very&rdquo; effective. Finasteride is a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor used to treat prostate enlargement symptoms and baldness. Finasteride has 2 trade names: Propecia for baldness and Proscar for BPH.<\/p><p>Over-the-counter minoxidil (Rogaine) is applied directly to the scalp and is the only hair regrowth drug approved for use by women. Just 4% of respondents said it was very effective, with 43% of users saying it was not effective at all.<\/p><p>Only 2% of men surveyed underwent hair transplants; but of these, 49% were either very or completely satisfied with the results of their surgery, the poll shows.<\/p><div>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/skin-problems-and-treatments\/hair-loss\/news\/20100406\/survey-most-baldness-treatments-dont-work?src=RSS_PUBLICD\">Survey: Most Baldness Treatments Don't Work<\/a>. WebMD.<\/div><div>Image source: Finasteride, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Finasteride.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a>, public domain.<\/div><div><\/div><div>Comments from Facebook:<\/div><div><\/div><div><div>\"Ah...so you are supposed to rub it on the scalp.. I've been drinking it all these years, no wonder it has had no effect\"<\/div><\/div><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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Finasteride is a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor used to treat prostate enlargement symptoms and baldness. Finasteride has 2 trade names: Propecia for baldness and Proscar for BPH.Over-the-counter minoxidil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/non-surgical-baldness-treatments-rated-ineffective-by-most-patients.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}