Word: minoxidil
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...hair-growing potions and lotions, hope seems to recede as steadily as their hairlines. But now comes word that a respected pharmaceutical firm, the Upjohn Co. of Kalamazoo, Mich., is investigating a chemical that could lead to development of the first successful hair restorer. The drug's name: minoxidil...
Upjohn, which developed minoxidil as a treatment for severe high blood pressure, stumbled on its potential gold mine when clinical trials indicated the drug had a peculiar side effect: growth of hair on the body, face and scalp. Most intriguing, the hair-raising effect extended to the pates of men supposedly irreversibly bald. The drug is too powerful to be taken internally by people not suffering from severe hypertension, so Upjohn is now experimenting with a topical lotion. The first tests, with balding inmates at the state prison in Jackson, Mich., proved inconclusive. Further studies are being done at Massachusetts...
...scalp for about eight weeks, attaining normal thickness and a length of around three-quarters of an inch. Then it falls out, and the growing process begins again." Such hair today, gone tomorrow results do not bother some medical students. They reportedly have been rubbing a crude minoxidil lotion on their thinning peaks...