“In a randomized controlled trial, an experimental pill helped men with pattern baldness regrow significantly more hair than a placebo. After six months, men taking the drug reportedly gained about 30 to 33 hairs per square centimeter of scalp, compared with about seven for men on placebo,” reports The Doomslayer.
STAT explains:
An oral medicine for hair loss successfully spurred hair growth in a late-stage trial, startup Veradermics announced Monday.
Veradermics assessed the pill in two ways: by how many hairs grew within a square centimeter of the scalp, on average, and by how satisfied participants were with the results. Over the course of six months, men who took the drug, known as VDPHL01, either once or twice daily had between 30 and 33 more hairs per square centimeter of scalp. Men in the placebo group grew approximately seven additional hairs.
Between 79% and 86% of men taking VDPHL01 said they saw improvement, along with between 72% and 84% of the clinical trial investigators — results that pleased Reid Waldman, a dermatologist turned Veradermics’ chief executive.
Insulting bald men can constitute sexual harassment in the United Kingdom, according to a ruling by an employment tribunal:
Hair loss is far more common among men than women, so using the term is “inherently related to sex” — and equivalent to commenting on the size of a woman’s breasts, the employment tribunal said…The finding … came in the case of an electrician, Tony Finn, who sued a small Yorkshire-based family business over the term….one of Finn’s supervisors, Jamie King, allegedly called him a “fat bald c—” and he was later fired…“In our judgment, there is a connection between the word ‘bald’ on the one hand and the protected characteristic of sex on the other,” the tribunal said. “We find it to be inherently related to sex.”
The ruling noted that … “women as well as men may be bald” but … “baldness is much more prevalent in men than women.” “So too, it is much more likely that a person on the receiving end of a remark such as that made by Mr. King would be male,” it added.
The finding also declared that criticizing Finn for his hairless head was “degrading” and “humiliating.”….“It is difficult to conclude other than that Mr. King uttered those words with the purpose of violating [Mr. Finn’s] dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for him,” it states. “Of his own admission, Mr. King’s intention was to threaten [Mr. Finn] and to insult him.”
