TiredSam
Committee Member
A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-44038756
Top story on the BBC News website this morning.
All I can say is, thank God, and I hope they'll plough as much funding into solving this blight on the lives of millions as is necessary. For too long baldness has been assumed to be a mental health issue where sufferers may initially lose some hair but then become trapped in an unhealthy cycle of delusional depilation. Now that those clever chaps in Manchester have thought to try out the effects of existing drugs on the condition (who'd have thought? Brilliant!) there may be some biological treatments too.
Who knows, maybe they'll look at ME in Manchester next? Oh, I see they already are:
http://www.cmft.nhs.uk/childrens-ho...arrington-building-specialist-services/cfs-me
We are a multi-disciplinary team offering individualised evidence based treatment packages incorporating Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Graded Exercise Therapy, Sleep Hygiene and Activity Management and work generically on a one-to-one basis with patients and their families. We have diverse professional backgrounds including Paediatrics, Clinical Psychology, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Social Work.
Well never mind, now that they've got the important stuff out of the way they might have a look at drug treatments for "CFS/ME" (wonder why they call it that?) in due course.