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SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 A Drug for Hair Loss That Clears Aging Cells Instead of Blocking a Hormone A biotech company is about to put the first GPX4-modulating "senolytic" into a human trial for male pattern hair loss, after ex vivo human follicle data that matched or beat finasteride. It's a genuinely new mechanism after nearly thirty years of the same two drugs — but the data so far is six days old, from follicles in a dish, not scalps. SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 Does Red Light Therapy Work, and Why Does the Price Range From $60 to $1,200? Red light therapy panels run from about $50 for a handheld unit to well over $1,200 for a full-body array, all promising some version of the same benefits. The clinical evidence is genuinely strong for exactly one use case that has nothing to do with a home panel, real but modest for a couple of things people actually buy these for, and weak or backwards for most of what gets marketed. And independent measurement has found $1,200 panels overstating their light output by roughly the same margin as $60 ones.

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