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From a WashingtonPost.com article on recent Federal Trade Commission actions:
The FTC charged one of the largest U.S. direct-mail marketers of health-related products, A. Glenn Braswell, with making “false and unsubstantiated claims” for several dietary supplements. As advertised in the Journal of Longevity, a direct-mail ad posing as a health information magazine, and in other direct-mail […]
Baldness has many origins. One is alopecia areata. (By the way, my baldness is good old fashioned male pattern.) There’s a good primer at Wikipedia.org. An excerpt:
Alopecia areata is thought to be an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly treats its hair follicles as foreign tissue and suppresses or stops hair growth. It is […]
From EurekAlert.org:
Acrux has been granted another US patent (number 6,998,138), expiring in 2017, which provides an additional layer of patent protection for delivery of anti-alopecia (baldness) drugs using Acrux’s fast drying skin delivery technology. (link)
This is related to an existing patent held by the company for the same technology.
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