January 2022 in “Pharmaceutical Sciences Asia” This study found that a liposome containing butterfly pea flower extract and clove oil was stable and, when used by 15 volunteers over 60 days, enhanced eyebrow thickness and darkness without causing irritation.
August 2019 in “The journal of investigative dermatology/Journal of investigative dermatology” This study concluded that placebo effects observed in older alopecia minoxidil studies are likely due to subjective hair count assessments and study design, rather than true improvements in hair growth.
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April 1998 in “American Journal of Dermatopathology” This study found no significant difference in estrogen and progesterone receptor expression between androgenic alopecia and alopecia areata, suggesting an indirect hormonal influence on androgenic alopecia.
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August 2001 in “Clinical endocrinology” This study found that lean women with PCOS have a similar degree of tissue insulin resistance as obese women with PCOS, suggesting that insulin resistance may be a primary feature of the syndrome.
September 2017 in “BAUST Journal” October 2025 in “Frontiers in Toxicology” This study found that a human relevant potency threshold for estrogen receptor alpha agonism may serve as a health-protective screening tool, and highlights inference performance as essential for scientific confidence frameworks.
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August 2011 in “Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle” This study found that GTx-024 significantly increased total lean body mass and improved physical function in healthy elderly men and postmenopausal women, suggesting potential use for muscle wasting conditions.
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December 2019 in “Iraqi Journal of Science” In this study, women with polycystic ovary syndrome had higher body mass index and hormone levels compared to healthy women, with hyperandrogenism symptoms like hirsutism and alopecia more prevalent among the obese participants.
This study concluded that combining letrozole with cabergoline improved ovulation and clinical pregnancy rates in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome and hyperprolactinemia compared to letrozole alone.
This study found that in both rodents and humans, knee laxity increased at certain phases of the reproductive cycle due to sex-steroid influence, particularly under high levels of estrogen and progesterone.
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March 2003 in “Endocrine Practice” The woman's symptoms and tests suggest her adrenal glands are producing too many male hormones.
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June 1981 in “Clinica Chimica Acta” March 2025 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology”
February 2021 in “PARIPEX INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH” This study found that women with PCOS had a higher prevalence of hypothyroidism compared to those without PCOS, especially among the obese PCOS subgroup.
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September 2024 in “Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research” This study reports that health-related quality of life was generally maintained, and sometimes improved, in patients with HR+/HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer treated with palbociclib, compared to monotherapy, across various study types.
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January 2018 in “PubMed” This article discusses the ethical views of Polish physicians on performance-enhancing substances and emphasizes the need to improve their knowledge to better address related issues in their patients, but it reports no new results.
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November 2010 in “Talanta” This study reported the development of a novel and reliable liquid chromatographic method to measure testosterone and epitestosterone in human urine, offering sensitive detection for doping control.
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July 2024 in “Dermatology Practical & Conceptual” This study found that the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) can be used as a cost-effective marker to assess the severity and treatment response in patients with alopecia areata.
January 2024 in “World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany” Polisorbate 20 is not suitable for curl creams due to instability.
January 2017 in “Research Portal (King's College London)” This paper analyzes Hilary Mantel's memoir and suggests that conflicts between her bodily experiences and psychological identifications affected her acceptance of a female gender identity, influencing her experience of endometriosis.
December 1977 in “Archives of Dermatology” This letter discusses prior findings on prednisone for alopecia areata, agreeing that systemic steroids usually do not change the disease course but contesting that most patients have a poor prognosis.
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August 2024 in “GeroScience” January 1985 in “OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)”
February 2025 in “Journal of Caring Sciences” This article emphasizes that the CONSORT statement is a guideline for reporting randomized controlled trials, not a tool for assessing risk of bias.
April 2020 in “Journal of the Endocrine Society” This case report describes the first known instance of a testosterone-secreting steroid cell ovarian tumor causing pulmonary embolism and erythrocytosis in a postmenopausal woman, highlighting its potential role as a rare cause of hypercoagulable state.
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January 1990 in “Clinical Endocrinology” This study found that women with female pattern androgenic alopecia have significantly higher levels of certain androgens and androgen sulfates compared to normal premenopausal women, suggesting markers for diagnosis and treatment efficacy.
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June 2021 in “International journal of pharmaceutical compounding” This study found that compounded minoxidil solutions in a propylene glycol-free and alcohol-reduced foam remained stable for 180 days, meeting United States Pharmacopeia standards for strength, pH, and antimicrobial effectiveness.
September 2013 in “Science” In this study, researchers found that undergraduate research experiences improved students' research skills, research self-efficacy, and aspirations for research careers, with self-efficacy partially mediating the effect on career aspirations.
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July 2012 in “The New England Journal of Medicine” This case report describes a 27-year-old man hospitalized with fatigue, myalgias, weakness, profound weight loss, and abnormal liver function, leading to a diagnosis after chest imaging revealed pneumomediastinum.
November 2025 in “Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern” This study compared serum and hair steroid hormone profiles in adolescents and found that hair steroid profiling is a feasible, non-invasive alternative to serum analysis, with androgen levels in both mediums correlating more strongly with body size and composition in boys than in girls.