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Birth control pills combined with bicalutamide are more effective at reducing excessive hair growth in women with PCOS than birth control pills alone.

Using anabolic androgenic steroids can cause serious, lasting health problems in many parts of the body.

Certain Chinese herbs, especially Cacumen platycladi, can promote hair regrowth and reduce hair loss-related hormone levels in mice.

PRFM may help treat hair loss, especially in mild cases.

Laser and light treatments can effectively remove hair long-term.

Potassium channel openers show promise for treating heart disease and other conditions, but more research is needed to fully understand their effects and safety.

Testosterone therapy aims to treat hormone deficiencies and various conditions safely and effectively, but requires careful patient monitoring due to potential side effects.

Mutations in the androgen receptor gene cause Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, affecting sexual development.

Finasteride inhibits enzyme activity in rhesus macaques, suggesting they're useful for evaluating similar drugs.

Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis is a rare, serious skin condition that can affect anyone, is more common in women, and may be linked to genetics, with a 20% mortality rate mainly due to sepsis.

Use specific tools to measure quality of life in alopecia areata patients and improve future treatments.

Topical metformin helped regrow hair in two women with a hard-to-treat scarring hair loss condition.

Thyroid diseases may contribute to autoimmune skin diseases, and more research is needed on their relationship.

Some growth factors, while important for normal body functions, can cause diseases when not regulated properly.

Hormonal imbalances, often indicating conditions like PCOS, are common in women with hard-to-treat acne, and a treatment approach addressing these imbalances may be needed.

Hormonal treatment is effective for women with acne not helped by usual treatments, especially if they have hormonal imbalances.

Thyroid hormones affect skin texture, hair and nail growth, and can cause skin diseases related to thyroid problems.

Most pregnant women experience skin changes like darkening and itching, while serious skin conditions are rare but need early treatment.

For women with moderate to severe unwanted hair growth or acne, birth control pills are the first choice, with other medications like cyproterone, spironolactone, flutamide, or finasteride as alternatives, and permanent hair removal should be done with electrolysis or laser.

The document concludes that veterinary dermatologists need more experience and a better approach to treating skin diseases in nonhuman primates.

Hormonal therapy is a treatment option for acne, the only medical treatment for hirsutism, and the most promising for androgenetic alopecia.

The nafarelin test can reliably distinguish between gonadotropin deficiency and delayed puberty in teenage boys.

Diabetes often causes various skin problems and complications.

Finasteride improves hair growth and reduces hirsutism in women, but side effects and optimal dosages need further research.

ARL15 is important for fat cell development and the release of the hormone adiponectin.

Effective treatments for lichen planopilaris are unclear due to inconsistent results and a lack of strong research evidence.

The document suggests a new model for evaluating public research that better captures the full value of knowledge creation and use, using PCOS research as an example.

Two transplant patients on cyclosporine unexpectedly developed hair loss.

A boy with chromosome 13q deletion syndrome developed eye cancer, a woman with breast cancer lost vision due to a rare side-effect of her treatment, a man's vision worsened after using a hair loss drug, and two rare disorders were discussed. Optical Coherence Tomography is useful for diagnosing and monitoring these conditions.

All treatments reduce hair growth; low dose flutamide most effective with fewer side effects.