From Hair Cloning to Celebrity Hair Transplants – 17,810 View This Week’s TBT Drink and Chat
August 27, 2010
Close to 18,000 viewers stopped by this week’s Tuesday Night Drink and Chat to watch and listen to Spencer Kobren, IAHRS accepted Member Dr. Glenn Charles and the TBT crew discussing everything from the dangers of online hair loss message forums to hair cloning.
Andrew Zairian, host and Executive Producer of The Guys From Queens Network stopped by to join the fun and to ask some compelling questions about women’s hair loss and why celebrities like Jeremy Piven can’t seem to get a decent hair transplant.
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AOL’s StyleList Speaks With Spencer Kobren About Women’s Hair Loss
August 17, 2010
Hair Loss in women is a silent epidemic of tremendous proportions. More than forty percent of hair loss sufferers in the U.S are women and a large percentage of these women are between the ages of 18 to 35.
As disturbing as male pattern baldness is for men, for women, hair loss can be downright devastating.
This week AOL’s StyleList takes a closer look at this growing epidemic.
Read the story: Women’s Hair Loss: Top Reasons Your Hair is Falling Out
For complete online support check out the AHLA recommended Women’s Hair Loss Project and WHLP message forums.
AMERICAN HAIR GROWTH CENTERS’ STEVE BENNIS ACCUSED OF FRAUD
August 16, 2010
FOX Chicago News has been investigating alleged con artist Steve Bennis to find out how he’s managed to stay in business in Chicago for at least five years, despite repeated lawsuits claiming he’s been committing fraud.
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Celebrity Hair Transplant – What’s The Deal With Matthew McConaughey’s Hair?
August 5, 2010
Twenty – four year old hair wearer James calls the program to give us an update and to reiterate how adding a small frontal hair piece has changed his life. He also had some very interesting celebrity hair loss news to share.
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Hair Transplant Marketing – “Selling the Sizzle”
July 18, 2010
In the world of surgical hair restoration selling the sizzle without necessarily delivering the steak has been the cornerstone of success for many well established practices. While the field as a whole is evolving, and this includes the large chain clinics, we still receive countless complaints from extremely unhappy hair transplant patients who believe that they have been mislead by unethical salesman, and unskilled and untrained hair transplant surgeons.
Listen to one caller’s experience in dealing with “the art of the sale” and how his choices would have been different if he was armed with the information he needed to make an educated decision.
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Advice From A Hair Transplant Veteran – The Importance of Good Communication and Aftercare
June 30, 2010
Hair transplant veteran Marcus calls the program to discuss his hair transplant experience, and to advise prospective patients on what to look for and what to avoid when considering hair transplant surgery. Marcus tells a compelling story of poor aftercare, and the importance of the doctor patient relationship.
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Propecia Side Effects – Fact Or Fiction
June 24, 2010
Fear mongering anti-Propecia videos and websites are popping up all over the internet making the decision to effectively treat hair loss even more confusing. Should consumers be legitimately concerned by claims of permanent long term adverse side effects from the drug, or are these videos and websites simply agenda driven anti-Propecia propaganda?
IAHRS accepted member William H. Reed, M.D. discusses his findings of an informal study in which he polled 17 hair restoration practices that have treated more than 30,0000 patients with the drug.
The bottom line: Out of more than 30,000 patients who were prescribed Propecia, not a single one has ever complained of long-term irreversible side effects of any kind.
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Life After Hair Loss – Choosing To Evolve
May 11, 2010
Spencer Kobren
and Joe from Staten Island discuss some of he reasons why The Bald Truth has stood the test of time, and the importance of appreciating the things we have in life as opposed to focusing on what we might not have.
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APCDD1- Researchers Identify Hair Loss Gene
April 15, 2010
Scientists from from Colombia, Rockefeller and Stanford Universities, believe they have discovered a gene that significantly impacts hair growth as well as hair follicle miniaturization; the phenomenon that is the cornerstone of male and female pattern baldness.
The gene identified is named APCDD1 (adenomatosis polyposis down-regulated 1), and was found in patients suffering with hereditary hypotrichosis simplex, a condition that usually presents itself in childhood. Hereditary hypotrichosis simplex is a rare autosomal dominant form of hair loss characterized by hair miniaturization, a process in which the hair follicle actually shrinks and normal thick terminal hair is gradually replaced with fine, velus hair.
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Histogen’s HSC Shows Continued Hair Growth At One Year – Listen to Exclusive TBT Interview
April 12, 2010
Exclusive interview with Histogen Inc. CEO and Founder Dr. Gail Naughton:
HSC Trial Shows Continued Significant Hair Growth at One Year Follow-up
Histogen to present one year clinical trial data at Society for Investigative Dermatology Annual Meeting
SAN DIEGO, April 13, 2010 – Histogen, Inc., a regenerative medicine company developing solutions based on the products of newborn cells grown under embryonic conditions, today announced the one year data findings of its Hair Stimulating Complex (HSC) pilot clinical trial. Statistically significant new hair growth was seen in HSC-treated subjects at this follow-up timepoint, one year after their single treatment with HSC. [Read more]
