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Researchers stress that the work is in the preliminary stages and a surefire treatment for baldness a long way off. Says Dr. Anthony Zappacosta of Bryn Mawr, Pa., who prescribed the drug for several patients, some of whom were bald: "In most cases hair grows on the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capsules: Jan. 26, 1981 | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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