A good news have come from U.K that the millions of men could get back their lost hair within 30 minutes of a new technique developed atU.S and U.K.
Scientists of U.S and one Indian origin scientist at U.K. have done the trial over 200 male patients.
Gary Hitzig who has successfully treated the patients with this new technique came to U.K for demonstrating the same.
Gary combined with the Indian scientist Raghu Reddy announced that they are going to treat 20 patients in U.K by this new treatment
They explained that this new …method injects plate let rich plasma and Acell taken from the patient itself and it is mixed with a powder derived form pig’s bladder.
The new injection seems to improve the hair growth immediately in bald area and in healthy hair growing area as well.
Reddy said, “It is as close as we have come to a cure for male baldness.”
Acell – a powder extracted from pig bladders – is being deemed a potential cure for baldness in men!
According to scientists, the latest baldness-treatment technique - in which a mixture of platelet-rich plasma is taken from a person’s own blood and Acell is injected into scalps – can apparently stop, and even possibly turn around, several types of male pattern baldness.
Noting that the mixture not only forms a protective barrier around existing hair-growing cells but also duplicates tissue to promote hair recovery, scientists are of the opinion that the Acell successfully tricks the body into believing that the scalp cells are in a pre-birth state – a fact that helps reactivate these cells.
The breakthrough technique to cure male baldness has been developed by Dr Gary Hitzig, who has thus far treated over 200 patients in the US. Hitzig is soon coming to the UK to perform the treatment with Dr Raghu Reddy – a leading hair restoration specialist at The Private Clinic in London’s Harley Street.
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The latest news from the tabloid press suggests that a revolutionary new hairloss cure might have been found, but just how revolutionary is it? More importantly is it effective and practical?
This is far from the first time the media has latched onto some new research or treatment which they claim is the new ‘miracle cure’ that Male Pattern Baldness sufferers have been waiting for, ignoring the effective options already available. This time, the news revolves around a single test trial due to take place in the UK, involving 20 men who will be injected with mixture of platelet–rich plasma (PRP) taken from their own blood, and a powder extracted from the bladder of pigs, known as Acell.
Newspapers have seized upon the comments of Dr. Raghu Reddy, a hairloss clinician who is leading the research in the UK. Dr. Reddy has been quoted in the press as saying: “[this treatment] is as close as we have come to a cure for Male Pattern Baldness. This revolutionary injectable combination of ACell and PRP may be the answer to restoring hair growth for those in the early to moderate stages of hair loss.”
ACell: “junk science”?
ACell has been around since 1999, and is manufactured by a US company of the same name. It has previously been claimed to have miraculous regenerative qualities, but the credibility of this claim has been called into question. In 2008 it was claimed that Lee Spievack, a hobby store salesman and the brother of ACell’s founder Alan Spievack, had re-grown part of his finger after using the pig’s bladder powder following an accident involving a model plane propeller. At the time, newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic heralded this “miracle cure”.
However the media was quickly left with egg on its collective face when the claims were dismissed as “junk science” by leading plastic surgeon Professor Simon Kay, who is professor of hand surgery at the University of Leeds.
Spievack claimed that within four weeks of using the powder his finger had regained its full length, but Professor Kay pointed out that the photos provided showed that the injury was not serious. “It’s a ridiculous story – absurd and over-egged in the extreme,” he said. “It looked to have been an ordinary fingertip injury with quite unremarkable healing. All wounds go through a repair process.” Unsurprisingly, the news story quickly disappeared from the media outlets that had published the story.
Perhaps this is an indication that claims about ACell as a key ingredient for hair loss should also be treated with a pinch of salt? What most newspapers have also failed to acknowledge is that there are already credible and proven treatments for Male Pattern Baldness that are readily available.
Proven treatments for hairloss already exist
Propecia and Minoxidil are pharmaceutical treatments which have been scientifically proven to prevent further hairloss in people with Male Pattern Baldness, as well as stimulating hair re-growth in many cases. Both hair loss products are licensed for the treatment of Male Pattern Baldness by the MHRA in the UK and approved by the FDA in America.
The Belgravia Centre’s on-site pharmacy creates individually tailored prescriptions based on these proven pharmaceutical hairloss products. For the very best results, our hairloss experts create holistic treatment programmes for each client. These often includenutritional hair supplements and LaserCombs, as well as ongoing monitoring. Our hairloss experts have unparalleled experience in treating the full range of hairloss conditions. Belgravia’s Success Stories are proof of the levels of hair loss stabilisation and regrowth experienced in so many cases.
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Oxford PhD’s Natural Hair Loss Remedy
Cure for Baldness? Expert Says Hair Cloning Available “within 3 years”
Over the years there have been many remedies, drugs and treatments developed for the reversal of hair loss. Now a young Oxford PhD graduate is aiming to get in on the action with a food supplement pill that he says is completely natural.
29-year-old Thomas Whitfield, who has a PhD in biochemistry, has launched a product this week based on research carried out for his PhD thesis, which he hopes will provide an effective natural remedy for the millions of men and women suffering from hair loss.
Known as TRX2, the hair loss treatment comes in pill form and contains only naturally occurring compounds already found in the human body. Because of its natural content, TRX2 has been classified as a nutritional supplement rather than a drug. Launched through Whitfield’s start-up business, Oxford Biolabs, TRX2 targets the potassium ion channels within hair follicles to promote hair re-growth.
Hair loss food supplement
Speaking to the Telegraph newspaper, Whitfield revealed that he had initially planned to use his research to create a new drug for hair loss, but eventually shifted towards developing a pill which would be classified as a food supplement, due to the obstacles involved in getting approval for a drug.
“If you develop a totally new drug you need a lot of money and for that you need external investors. But then you lose the autonomy of the company and the product,” he said. “You don’t develop the most effective treatments. It just plugs into the big pharmaceutical companies.”
It is still early days for Oxford Biolabs, which has so far been funded from Whitfield’s own pocket and an assortment of grants, including one from the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship. But in the eighteen months since Whitfield established the company it has grown to encompass a dozen full-time employees, and has part-time staff on both sides of the Atlantic. He now hopes that TRX2 will prove popular with hairloss sufferers, and that positive sales will enable his company to continue to grow.
Hair loss an increasingly common problem
It is not yet known how effective the food supplement will be in preventing a receding hairline or promoting hair re-growth, but there is a large market for hair loss products in the UK and internationally. Statistics compiled by the Belgravia Centre in 2009 showed that a growing number of young men between the ages of 21 and 30 are seeking treatment for hair loss.
Upon release of the figures, Belgravia’s senior trichologist, Leonora Doclis, said: “More people are becoming aware that you can do something about hair loss, but in the past your options were limited. Not until the last decade havePropecia and Minoxidil been combined to produce significant results.”
Doclis added: “There are numerous treatments that come and go, usually supplemental, but until now there has been no evidence that any are significantly effective for prevention of hair loss. We find supplements can help to boost results from the medically proven treatments, but until now we haven’t seen dramatic results achieved from the sole use of a supplement and that is why we always recommend treatment programmes based around the products that are proven to work”.
Licensed treatments for hair loss
Propecia and Minoxidil are the only two drugs which are scientifically proven to be effective in the battle against genetic hair loss, and are fully licensed by the MHRA in the UK and approved by the FDA in the USA. These two hair loss treatments are at the core of the Belgravia Centre’s hair loss treatment programmes, which utilise a range of hair growth boosters and trichological monitoring techniques to obtain optimum results.
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A leading expert on hair loss has said that hair cloning “should be available within three years”. Dr Akshay Batra, an Indian trichologist working in Dubai, believes that scientific developments mean that baldness will soon be cured in one operation and hair loss will be confined to the history books. The technique that Dr Batra is referring to involves removing a single strand of hair from the scalp and multiplying it into thousands of hair follicles that are reinserted into the scalp. “Initial results are good. This means that no man will ever be bald again,” says Dr Batra, “It should be out within three years”.
But for men who are already starting to notice a receding hairline and thinning on the crown, three years could be too long to wait. Hair loss can be highly distressing. Many men go with the flow and opt for the semi-bald look or shave their head and get used to having nothing up top. But some men do not feel comfortable with hair loss and want to maintain their hair. As Dr Batra explains, “Baldness has huge social and emotional implications. It should not be so, but people tend to suffer loss of self-esteem.”
So until science comes up with the holy grail of a hair loss cure-all, many men will continue to keep baldness at bay with the help of two non-surgical hair loss treatments. Minoxidil and Propecia can produce optimum re-growth when tailored to the individual and administered alongside the correct hair growth booster. The Belgravia Centre has an in-house pharmacy that produces Minoxidil in three unique formulas: Minoxidil 4% and Minoxidil 5% solutions with added Medroxyprogesterone (MPG) and Minoxidil 12.5% cream with added Azelaic Acid (AA). MPG and AA are hair growth boosters which may reduce the adverse effects of dihydrotestosterone (DHT – the hormone that causes Male Pattern Baldness). Subsequently, the Minoxidil can work more efficiently, increasing hair growth. Propecia is the single most effective treatment for male hair loss and compliments these Minoxidil formulas incredibly well. To see the kind of re-growth that male clients at Belgravia experience, take a look at the collection of hair loss success stories.
STEM CELL HAIR LOSS TREATMENT
With hair loss in women on the rise and men becoming increasingly concerned about their receding hairlines, it’s good to hear that the amounts of money being poured into cures for baldness aren’t being wasted.
The success of stem cell regeneration in producing hair growth in mice has been well documented over the past decade but Aderans Research Institute Inc. (ARI) recently announced the launch of its Phase 2 clinical study on cell-based hair regeneration in men and women.
Structured around the findings from the first study, the second phase continues to evaluate the impact of the stem cell treatment process on female pattern hair lossand male pattern baldness.
“The second phase of this study is another step in our efforts to truly understand the impact of regenerative cell therapy on pattern hair loss. It’s a tremendous opportunity,” said Kurt Stenn, MD, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer.
The research focuses on taking the two primary cell types within hair follicles – fibroblasts and keratinocytes – and promoting their growth in controlled laboratory environments before recombining them and inserting the “combined hair cells” in the patient’s skin, where they are expected to generate hair growth.
“This is research the industry has always wanted to do, and ARI has combined the support, the market, and the scientific wherewithal to do it,” said Vice President Vern Liebmann.
The treatment in this study, however, is only suitable for pattern hair loss, or androgenetic alopecia, and not intended for those with a different underlying condition. Other experimental treatments claim they may help hair grow back regardless of why it fell out, but caution is advised until conclusive evidence proves their safety and efficacy.
John Satino, clinical director at the “Hair and Scalp Clinics” in Clearwater, FL explained how his experimental stem cell treatment is intended to work on humans.
“This treatment involves drawing the blood of the patient, their own blood,” Satino said. “It’s then separated. It’s called PRP or platelet rich plasma which contains stem cells and growth factors. Those factors then are injected into the scalp in the affected area.”
Satino said his stem cell treatment, which can cost several thousands of dollars, also uses a laser to agitate the skin so the stem cells can migrate into the hair follicles. The procedure can be uncomfortable but Satino said it’s a one hour treatment that only needs to be performed once.
Satino’s treatment is still in experimental stages and is not open to the general public. The results will be published in a study but in the meantime, if you’re losing your hair there are several other hair loss treatment options available.
