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This study reported that estrogen-progestin oral contraceptives, antiandrogens, and insulin sensitizers are more effective than placebo in treating hirsutism in women, with combination therapies generally proving superior to monotherapy.

In this study, testosterone was found to increase the risk of arrhythmias in a rat heart model, while finasteride reduced this arrhythmogenic effect.

In this study, intradermal injections of 0.5% minoxidil significantly improved hair growth and volume in women with female androgenetic alopecia compared to a placebo, with a good safety profile reported.

This study reported that both phlebotomy and oral contraceptive pills with cyproterone acetate effectively improved insulin resistance and androgenic profiles in women with PCOS, but OCs had more impact on regularizing menstrual cycles.

In this phase 2 trial, STS01 1% significantly improved hair regrowth in patients with mild to moderate patchy alopecia areata compared to placebo, with a manageable skin irritation side effect profile.

This review discusses recent advancements in understanding neuroendocrine regulation of keratin biology and highlights the potential of neurohormones to treat skin disorders, but it reports no new clinical results.

This article reviews the role of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in hair follicle morphogenesis and the hair cycle, suggesting potential paths for developing treatments for hair growth disorders but providing no new clinical findings.

This review examines how epigenetic dysregulation affects adult stem cell function, noting that impacts range from minor to serious disruptions in tissue homeostasis and potential cancer development.

This study found that activin affects both stromal cells and keratinocytes in skin morphogenesis and repair, with dose-dependent effects on keratinocytes demonstrated through transgenic mouse models.

This review highlights the potential of extracellular vesicle-based therapies for treating various diseases, but it also notes challenges like the lack of regulatory guidelines that hinder their clinical development.

This review discusses the indications, contraindications, and potential for using hormonal therapy as a first-line treatment for acne in females, but reports no new clinical results.

This review discusses the need for more research on how the chronobiological control systems regulate hair follicle cycling and reports no new results.

This narrative piece considers how epigenetic factors may influence the processes of skin wound healing, including hair follicle formation, but it presents no new experimental results.

In this study, an endoscopic midface lifting technique showed notable improvement in midface ptosis and infraorbital hollowing, with lower morbidity and few complications after over 400 procedures.

This study found that in a 10-week trial, inositol did not significantly reduce trichotillomania symptoms compared to placebo, although 42.1% of inositol-treated patients felt 'much or very much improved' at the study's end.

This study found that mice lacking myelin protein zero-like 3 (Mpzl3) had reduced body weight and adiposity despite increased food intake, which was linked to higher energy expenditure and improved glycemic control.

This review integrates studies on mouse models and human clinical observations to highlight the role of immune cells in skin development and how their dysregulation leads to skin disorders, suggesting potential therapeutic pathways for skin regeneration.

This article discusses the development of an interactive workbook by OCCAM to help cancer patients communicate their use of complementary and alternative medicine with healthcare providers and reports no clinical results.

This case-control study found that men with earlier onset androgenetic alopecia, particularly frontal balding, may have an increased risk of prostate cancer in a multiethnic veterans cohort.

This study introduced a novel deep clustering approach for melanoma detection from dermoscopic images, demonstrating improved performance over existing methods by mitigating class imbalance issues using a center-oriented margin-free triplet loss.

This review discusses how neuroendocrine pathways influence keratin regulation in human skin and hair follicles and suggests these pathways as potential targets for new treatments of skin disorders, but reports no clinical results.

This study found that combining oral isotretinoin with topical treatments was more effective than topical treatments alone for improving frontal fibrosing alopecia symptoms, despite some side effects.

This study found that finasteride reduced prostate cancer incidence by 30%, with no significant difference in Gleason scores compared to placebo after re-evaluation of pathology and extended follow-up.

This study concluded that adding a topical agent to intense pulsed light therapy significantly improved hair reduction and patient satisfaction in Pakistani women with idiopathic facial hirsutism compared to light therapy alone, without increasing adverse effects.

This study found that a 3D Matrigel culture technique for dermal papilla cell spheroids can enhance hair follicle inductivity and induce hair-like fiber differentiation in vitro, even with high-passage cells.

This study reported that Indian hedgehog (Ihh) signaling plays a crucial role in regulating tumor progression and metastasis in epithelial cancers, with Ihh deficiency leading to increased malignancy and metastasis in mice.

This study found that α-13′-carboxychromanol significantly accelerated wound healing and improved tissue quality in a mouse model, especially when delivered with bacterial nanocellulose under diabetic conditions.

This article discusses the role of suction-assisted lipectomy (SAL) and the hCG method in obesity management, highlighting the speculative benefits of hCG but reporting no new clinical findings.

This article reviews the use of artificial hair fibers, discussing their controversial history and the FDA ban, and reports no new research findings.

This study observed that the OCIAD2 and DCN genes in Liaoning cashmere goats have opposite effects on hair growth by interacting with the TGF-β signaling pathway, influencing follicle morphogenesis and periodic changes.