Finasteride affects the hormones involved with male pattern baldness. Finasteride may help slow hair loss at your hairline, ...

Losing your hair can bring up a ton of emotions, and it can force you to reckon with how you feel about your appearance (not to mention your age). It can make you feel desperate, but luckily, there ...

Research supports that both finasteride and dutasteride help treat hair loss, particularly when caused by androgenetic ...

A clinical study that compared the effects of oral finasteride against a finasteride 0.25% topical solution was carried out on 24 men with androgenetic alopecia. The men who applied the topical ...

The FDA encourages health care providers to educate their patients about the risks associated with using compounded topical finasteride. Reports of adverse events associated with the use of compounded ...

Prevention and treatment trials need different recruitment strategies: Experience from the IBIS 1 prevention trial in Australia and New Zealand No significant financial relationships to disclose. This ...

The baldness drug Propecia and the BPH drug Proscar may cause infertility and more sexual problems than previously thought, the FDA warns. The main ingredient of both drugs is finasteride. Finasteride ...

The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial showed that finasteride chemoprevention reduced the 7-year prevalence of prostate cancer compared with placebo. A previous study, however, showed that widespread ...

Finasteride, best known as the enlarged-prostate medicine Proscar, is a safe, effective way to reduce the risk of prostate cancer, according to long-term findings from the Prostate Cancer Prevention ...

Finasteride, a generic hormone-blocking drug, was found to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 25 percent in the landmark Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT). Long- term data, published today in ...

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