The first year of hair loss treatment: what the product information actually says
Twelve months of treatment produces a change smaller than the difference between two bathroom mirror photos. That is the whole problem with judging it by eye.
Combining hair loss treatments: what the licensed evidence actually covers
The pairing marketed everywhere as the gold standard is described by the UK product information in four words: no data are available.
PRP for hair loss: promising, unstandardised, and not a replacement for anything
The evidence is more positive than sceptics allow and much less useful than clinics imply, for one reason: no two clinics are doing the same thing.
Hair loss and PCOS: what the pattern tells you, and what it doesn’t
Hair thinning gets people sent for PCOS testing constantly. The guideline is surprisingly clear that on its own, it is one of the weaker reasons to look.
Metabolic adaptation: three different things people call one thing
Everyone quotes the Biggest Loser study. Almost nobody quotes the part where metabolic slowing did not predict who regained, and the people who kept most weight off had slowed down the most.
Microneedling for hair loss: a large effect on hair count, and no standard protocol
More hairs, but not demonstrably thicker ones, from trials that each did it slightly differently. Useful, genuinely — as long as you know what it is adding to.
Topical finasteride: what is actually available in the UK, and what gets absorbed
Marketed as the version without systemic effects. The phase III data show serum DHT falling by about a third, which is not nothing, and the pharmacovigilance data agree.
Low-dose oral minoxidil: what the evidence shows and why the boxed warning misleads
The scary warning on the box belongs to a dose ten to forty times higher. Getting that distinction right is most of what an honest conversation about this medicine involves.
Topical minoxidil side effects: irritation, shedding and what the solution contains
The commonest problem with minoxidil is usually a reaction to what it is dissolved in, not to the drug. That single fact solves a lot of abandoned treatments.
Minoxidil for hair loss: how to use it properly and what results look like
It works while you use it and stops working when you don’t. Most disappointment with minoxidil is a dosing problem, not a drug problem.