December 2024 in “Indian Dermatology Online Journal” This study established reference values for trichoscopic parameters of hair density and thickness in healthy Indian males, providing a foundation for future research.
November 2025 in “Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd” In this study of 36 women with chronic telogen effluvium, once daily oral minoxidil significantly reduced hair shedding over 12 months, though some participants experienced facial hypertrichosis and other mild side effects. The authors concluded that placebo-controlled studies are needed to confirm these results.
January 2025 in “SKIN The Journal of Cutaneous Medicine” In this study, researchers found that patients with severe alopecia areata who respond to baricitinib treatment within six months may improve clinically within a year, while those with very severe disease may require at least a year for evidence of treatment effect.
October 2015 in “Prostate Cancer” This study found that both finasteride and dutasteride reduced the risk of prostate cancer detection, but finasteride was associated with an increased diagnosis of higher-grade disease, unlike dutasteride.
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January 2016 in “BMC Bioinformatics” This study found that using curated biomedical databases as training examples for information extraction tasks in Genome-Wide Association Studies can outperform cost-insensitive methods, demonstrating their potential use without expert annotation.
