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Post-finasteride syndrome causes various symptoms in men using finasteride, with no known cure.

In this rodent model study, the researchers reported that using low-intensity focused ultrasound with phenytoin enhanced its anti-epileptic efficacy by disrupting plasma protein binding in a region-specific manner, reducing seizure frequency and duration.

This review discusses the complex nature of frontal fibrosing alopecia, suggesting it is a misnomer and possibly a subset of lichen planopilaris, but reports no new clinical results.

New therapy helps treat hair loss.

This study found that Puerariae Radix ethanol extracts increased the proliferation of human hair dermal papilla cells via ERK and Akt phosphorylation, suggesting potential benefits for alopecia treatment.

This article contains information about journal subscriptions and does not report any research findings.

This review summarizes evidence that pityrosporum folliculitis in immunocompromised patients responds well to topical antifungals and treatment of underlying conditions, based on a limited number of studies with small sample sizes.

This study found that finasteride-loaded microemulsions using poloxamer 124 significantly enhanced skin penetration of the drug compared to a standard solution, primarily through targeting hair follicles via the transfollicular pathway, with intercluster, intercellular, and transcellular pathways contributing less.

Epirubicin is as effective as doxorubicin for cancer treatment with less heart damage, but doesn't work on doxorubicin-resistant cancers.

Diphenyl ethers can potentially reduce excess oil production when applied on the skin, helping treat conditions like acne.

This study found that most UK women prescribed cyproterone acetate/ethinylestradiol before and after 2013 had conditions aligning with approved indications and prior acne treatment.

This study found that the EpiLight Hair Removal System achieved approximately 60% hair removal after 12 weeks following a single treatment, indicating effectiveness and safety for long-term hair reduction.

This study investigated the extracellular polysaccharides from the edible green alga Parachlorella sp. BX1.5, finding that they have potential applications in cosmetics and health products due to their stability, antioxidant properties, and effects on hair growth in mice.

This report describes a case of widespread Porokeratotic eccrine and hair follicle nevus in a 15-year-old woman with keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome, involving both eccrine ostia and hair follicle infundibula.

This study concluded that QSPR models effectively predict drug skin penetration, with the Potts-Guy model showing the highest predictive accuracy for the drugs tested.

This paper discusses the methods and challenges of postmarketing surveillance for new antiepileptic drugs, emphasizing the necessity of such data collection to identify adverse effects and assess drug effectiveness beyond initial trials.

The researchers reported that the facial Psoriasis Log-based Area and Severity Index (fPLASI) more reliably and sensitively captured clinical improvement in facial psoriasis than the existing facial Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (fPASI).

Pill splitting increased generic finasteride sales but didn't affect branded finasteride sales.

This case report describes how personalized treatment based on Encyclopedic Tumor Analysis successfully led to durable regression in a woman with advanced pilomatrical carcinoma, unresponsive to standard care.

This study observed a strong overall reduction in the use of CPA/EE in the Netherlands, despite similar proportions of users with acne or other hyperandrogenic conditions before and after the referral procedure.

This study found that epidermal growth factor receptor and mitogen activated protein kinase inhibitors down-regulate PD-L1 expression in human hair follicles, which may contribute to sterile folliculitis in treated patients.

This article reports that follicular unit extraction is a minimally invasive hair restoration technique that avoids linear scarring and reduces donor-site pain compared to traditional strip harvesting methods.

This review discusses post-finasteride syndrome, emphasizing its serious psychological and cognitive symptoms and the need for more research and awareness in the medical community, but provides no new clinical findings.

In this case report, a rare form of chronic cutaneous lupus, lupus erythematosus profundus, was treated effectively with topical and systemic therapies, leading to improvement and healing of ulcerations, though resulting in atrophic scars and macules.

This article discusses Fluxactive Complete, a natural supplement for prostate health, and reports no new clinical results.

This study found that lipid accumulation product (LAP) and free androgen index (FAI) can highly predict liver steatosis in women with PCOS phenotype A.

This study examines how conditions like PSSD, Long COVID, and ME/CFS form a "Post-Exposure Syndromes" family, initiated by transient exposures but persisting due to complex state-space dynamics, and suggests improving pharmacovigilance to better address and understand these persistent syndromes.

Two elderly men developed scalp inflammation after using a gel for skin lesions, which healed with treatment except for some permanent hair loss.

This case report describes erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp in a 55-year-old woman, which improved rapidly with oral antibiotics and topical corticosteroids but resulted in permanent scarring alopecia, emphasizing the need for prompt diagnosis and treatment to minimize scarring.