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Starting tomorrow (Jan 28, 2008) you will be able to purchase medicinal marijuana through a vending machine (in the Los Angeles area). Well, you can purchase it, only if you have a prescription from your doctor, and then go through the process of getting finger printed, and getting a prepaid credit card- that holds […]
A man, who lives in the south-western part of Germany has been trying to have the costs of his “wigs” covered by his health insurance provider. He believes that his insurance should pay for them because he has had hair-loss problems since childhood.
His claims have been denied. The insurance company states:
The hair’s protective […]
I am cleaning my house today….giving everything a real good clean - before the repair people come in a day or two. I have been going through everything, and throwing things out. I just found 3 phone books from 2007 (city directory and yellow pages x 2) and on each one, they have […]
Big news people! Follica, a new company specializing in treating androgenetic alopecia has just secured $5.5M in venture funding from Intrawest Partners and PureTech Ventures.
Follica Inc, a company based in Boston, plans to use the money to start a proof of concept study. With this new funding, they are planning to generate new hair follicles.
An […]
Here’s a nice YouTube video on Advanced Hair Studio, which has come under fire of late for it’s misleading advertising claims. The clip - about 10 minutes long - if from a BBC program (or should I say “programme?”) and takes the form of investigative, hidden-camera journalism .
h/t - Balding Blog
Tags: advanced-hair-studio, advertising, alopecia, bald, […]
The HeadlineIt! originally featured on the ABC show “American Inventor” is almost ready for sale. It’s taken a little longer than anticipated; earlier projections estimated a winter 2007 release. Nevertheless, the online store is taking pre-orders now. Negotiations to bring the product to local brick-and-mortar retailers are still in the works.
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Tags: alopecia, bald, […]
Shane Warne is an Australian cricketer who has been seen in print ads for Advanced Hair Studio and its product AHS-FP. Well, today the Advertising Standards Authority, the regulatory authority that governs advertising in Britain, spoke out and said the advertisements should be banned.
Ad copy goes like this:
“I’ve been hearing it for years, but to […]
I normally comb through Dr. Rassman’s Q & As from Balding Blog on a semi-weekly basis, compiling a few that catch my eye into a semi-themed post. This question however, strikes me as worth standing on it’s own. It’s not something I’ve ever looked at here at Baldiness, but it’s got my curiosity up.
Pursuing a […]
It’s a bumper month for companies doing research in the hair restoration arena. First Intercytex, then IGI, now Neosil.
Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. has announced $10 million dollars in debt funding to Neosil.
“Hercules was particularly impressed with Neosil’s product pipeline and scope of therapeutics in development for an early stage pharmaceutical company,” said Kathy Conte, […]
More real medical news…
From the press release:
IGI, INC. announced that it has received, a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate the safety and therapeutic potential of parathyroid hormone PTH (7-34) analog to treat alopecia induced by chemotherapy in breast cancer patients.
In previous animal testing, IGI “successfully formulated PTH […]
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