Drug used to treat glaucoma actually grows human hair

Friday, October 26, 2012 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

If you're balding and want your hair to grow back, then here is some good news. A new research shows how the FDA-approved glaucoma drug, bimatoprost, causes human hair to regrow. It's been commercially available as a way to lengthen eyelashes, but these data are the first to show that it can actually grow human hair from the scalp.

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