Okay, interesting.
, low doses of minoxidil, which is the active ingredient in the over-the-counter Rogaine hair loss treatment, appear to work way better at treating hair loss when taken orally than when applied via a sticky lotion onto the scalp.
As these things often go, the efficacy of lower-dose minoxidil pills over Rogaine's lotion and foam products — which, as anyone who has pattern baldness in their family knows, doesn't work particularly well and feels quite gross to boot — was also discovered by trial and error.notes, this discovery was the result of a dedicated Australian dermatologist named Rodney Sinclair.
That off-label designation is likely to remain that way, however, because as Yale School of Medicine dermatologist Brett King told the paper, there's little reason Big Pharma would be interested in conducting formal trials, due to the grim economics of the industry.. "There is no incentive to spend tens of millions of dollars to test it in a clinical trial. That study truly is never, ever going to be done.
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