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[27 Apr 2010 | View Comments ]
Unlimited Donor Hair From Coen Gho’s Partial Unit Extraction

Note: though this article clearly falls under Fair Use, our hosting provider received a DMCA take down demand from Ariane Tadayyon of Informa,  and so we’ve temporarily removed the images. We’ll post a link to the original article when we can track down where we originally found it.
Dr. Coen Gho is publishing a study on “Partial [...]

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[22 Apr 2010 | View Comments ]
Histogen Trial Shows 73% Increase in Hair After One Year and One Injection

Histogen, a regenerative medicine company launched in 2007, has announced an encouraging follow-up to their pilot study from last year.

And it is good. Trialists were given only one application of Histogen’s Hair Stimulating Complex (HSC), and in some cases gained 73% more hair in the application area.
HSC seems to be a relabeled version of their ReGenica product [...]

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[11 Aug 2009 | View Comments ]

A few years ago, it seemed like Intercytex was going to provide mankind with the definitive solution to hair loss. The hair regeneration therapy, known as ICX-TRC, showed great promise: it was going to be cheaper, less uncomfortable and more effective than hair transplants. Results from clinical trials looked good and commercial application seemed to [...]

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[3 May 2009 | View Comments ]
Trial Volunteers Needed For Natural, Topical Hair Loss Treatment

The goal of HairGen is to reduce hair loss to non-MPB levels, while also creating a healthy scalp environment that may potentially promote thicker hair and/or regrowth.

The herbs used in HairGen are all wild-harvested, which, while more costly, ensures that each ingredient is of the very finest quality. All of the herbs are distilled into liquid extracts via pure organic grape spirits, and the alcohol will then be removed to ensure that no damage is done to the scalp.

The alcohol can be removed due to the unique cutting-edge liposomal delivery system that uses phospholipids to increase scalp permeability.

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[1 May 2009 | View Comments ]
Platelet Rich Plasma procedure video overview

Hair transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Jones has provided an introductory video for those curious about PRP procedures.

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[21 Feb 2009 | View Comments ]
Men’s Health Article on Various Baldness Treatments

US-based Men’s Health Magazine has a very thorough overview-piece on the current state of hair loss treatments.

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[22 Jan 2009 | View Comments ]
Cotsarelis Interview in Philadelphia City Paper about Follica

George Cotsarelis of Follica predicts product launch as another Five Years Away, with trials in two to three.

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[13 Aug 2008 | View Comments ]
Follica raises $11mil, reveals secret 11 herbs and spices

Right on the heels of previous funding, Follica has just announced the completion of a second round of funding, grabbing 11 million USD and G. Kirk Raab, ex-CEO of biotech giant Genentech as a chairman. Follica CEO Daphne Zohar heads up the publicity with an overview on Xconomy.com: “Our research has been progressing in a very positive way. We have had significant interest from the venture community and while we just closed the Series A round a few months ago …

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[8 Aug 2008 | View Comments ]
Platelet Rich Plasma – Industry magazine excerpts

Joseph Greco has been sending out some scans from a hair transplant industry magazine regarding Platelet Rich Plasma as used in hair transplant surgeries.

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[6 Aug 2008 | View Comments ]

Acell, a Jessup, Maryland-based company, has begun providing hair transplant doctors with its skin-regenerating powder. This may possibly provide an unlimited source of donor hair.

Dr. Robert Jones now has access to Acell’s Extracellular Matrix (ECM) products for wound healing. Anyone interested in signing up as a test patient, please email hairsite@aol.com immediately for details.

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