Hair and Gone
I just had to use that headline. Or how about, “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow”? Or “Hair and Now”? Tara Murtha, I’m looking at you.
Joe writes to us about another pharma boon. He sent me this article, from Time.com. Here’s the part that matters to us:
Many psychiatric drugs have hair loss [side effects]. Prozac has that as a side effect. Almost every one of them, if you read the literature. Unfortunately, the amount of ignorance among physicians in dealing with hair loss is massive, so there are very few doctors who really understand the process and they tend to evade the questions that are posed to them.
Joe was very funny in response:
I guess some marketing wonk could spin this side effect into a benefit, “This medication also saves consumers, who are disproportionately poor, the costs normally associated with hair care thus freeing their funds to enjoy the full life that this medication has long engendered.”
I wish that were a stretch. I really do.
liz | 3:02 PM | meds, side effects
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