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Side effect shadows a new baldness drug
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It looks like the most hopeful development yet on baldness: a pill
that grew hair on a majority of men who took it.
That was a substantially better record than with Rogaine, a
"remedy" that has been out for nearly a decade and that is applied to
the scalp. The new drug, Propecia, which could be on the market
within a year, can slow the rate of loss as well as add hair in
mildly to moderately bald men.
But when Merck & Co. researchers unveiled their findings Sunday in
San Francisco, they acknowledged side effects that, though found in
fewer than 2 percent of subjects, could dampen the ...
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Going Bald - Get Propecia!(Brief Article)
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94% of nursing homes cited as deficient; A federal investigator found that for-profit facilities were more likely to have problems. In Minnesota, nearly 98 percent of Medicare-certified homes were cited at least once, with four listed as having serious quality issues.(NEWS)
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