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Article: FDA APPROVES PILL FOR MALE BALDNESS.(NEWS)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- December 23, 1997
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Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg The New York Times
For as long as there has been baldness, it seems, there have been efforts to cure it: oils and creams, toupees and transplants, not to mention what hair stylists gingerly term ``the comb-over.''
But as much as some men may have wanted one, there has never been a baldness pill - until now.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it had given Merck & Co., the maker of crucial treatments for heart disease, osteoporosis and AIDS, permission to sell a tiny tan octagonal tablet that, experiments show, either promoted the growth of hair or at least stopped hair loss in 83 percent of men who ...