TL;DR
A pill for male pattern baldness just showed something people who have tried hair treatments care about most: it kept working. Veradermics says men who took its slow-release minoxidil tablet twice a day for a full year gained 43.9 hairs per square centimeter of scalp, more than the 36.4 its other trial showed at six months, and that nearly 9 in 10 of them looked visibly better to the doctors grading them. The company also reports no heart events of special interest, a known concern with minoxidil taken by mouth. These are company-reported numbers, not yet peer reviewed, and no filing date with the FDA has been set; the company says the pill could become the first oral hair-loss drug approved in the U.S. in nearly 30 years. For our odds on when it reaches pharmacy shelves, and the timeline of the hair-restoration breakthroughs lining up behind it, subscribe.
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