Proscar (finasteride) stimulating hair growth
April 1997
There's no end to all the jokes about Proscar (finasteride) stimulating hair growth...and reducing sex drive.
Low doses of finasteride regrow hair in about half of the men who use it...by suppressing dihydrotestosterone.
Merck wants to market a 1 mg finasteride tablet for baldness called Propecia. The sex drive issue has been way overblown. Fewer than 2% of men report problems.
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