Word: lotion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...product that money can't buy, Upjohn's minoxidil lotion is getting a ! lot of attention. Doonesbury has taken acid note of it, as has the Cathy comic strip, while ABC's Nightline has given it more serious treatment. To millions of men, it may, in fact, be a more promising potion than the elixir of love. Reason: minoxidil, which is otherwise used to treat high blood pressure, apparently can regrow hair on balding heads. When a Washington hospital announced three years ago that it was seeking gleaming pates on which to test the hair restorer, 10,000 eager volunteers...
...heads. But what truly counts, after all, is what is in the mirror. Only 40% of the subjects felt new hair growth was moderate, and a mere 8% considered it dense. Moreover, test results show that a placebo solution (lacking minoxidil) was at times just as effective as the lotion containing the drug...
...major FDA concern. Minoxidil is a potent drug, and taken orally in tablet form it can have serious adverse effects, including disturbing the heart's rhythm. (Minoxidil's ability to grow hair was a side effect, discovered during tests of the oral medication.) Some subjects using the 2% lotion have complained of skin itching, scaling and blistering. Ten subjects enrolled in the hair-growing tests have died, but their deaths, according to Upjohn, were not related to use of the lotion. However, no one knows the consequences of dabbing on the drug for 20 years or more--a realistic prospect...
...neither noble nor savage, will I still get dates? And what after-shave lotion will...
Arrests for the season stood at 1,920 in Fort Lauderdale last week, double last year's number, with jail stays as common as the smell of suntan lotion...