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Editorial Readers arriving at this Editor’s Page are probably aware by now that this copy of International Hair Route is Issue Number 100. One hundred has a nice ring to it. It’s a cardinal number that connotes endurance, durability, stamina, and — especially important for an electrolysis magazine — permanence. It seems proper that an Issue Number as significant as 100 should have content that is similarly noteworthy, and I think that the publication of the International Hair Route Drug Chart© 2004 Update admirably fits the bill. Drugs that upset the body’s normal production of hormones are also of special interest to electrologists. And the importance attached to “the effect of drugs on hormones,” has been amply demonstrated by the enormous popularity of IHR’s Drug Chart; not only in the electrology sector but throughout the entire medical and healthcare field. It is interesting to go back to IHR’s very first magazine (Issue Number 1, Oct. 1979) and read there a quotation from a speech given by W. E. Arnould-Taylor (a Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society of Medicine), when he was Guest Speaker at the General Meeting of the Electrolysis Association of Ontario, in September 1979. “Out of the 30,000 different drugs available right now in America and the U.K., it is estimated that only 200 are necessary,” said Mr. Arnould-Taylor. “People have come to depend on and demand drugs, and in Britain, the National Education Council has started an educational program to halt this alarming trend and make the public more responsible for their own health.” In the year 2004, the number of brand-name drugs available by prescription worldwide is in the hundreds of thousands. Despite the earlier-day efforts of Mr. Arnould-Taylor et al, prescription drugs today kill more people each year than all automobile and airplane accidents combined (an estimated 100,000). And the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that adverse reaction to drugs or biologic agents affect up to 30 percent of hospitalized patients. With these facts in mind, the editors at IHR have spent months researching and tabulating the International Hair Route Drug Chart© 2004 Update, which lists the hundreds of brand-name drugs that have hirsutism (or some other form of hair growth) as a possible side effect. Although not life-saving, knowledge of the hair-causing drugs that our clients may be taking has proved to be an invaluable tool for electrologists. Clients’ case history records are of little use if they do not take into account the possible (adverse) effects of certain medications: Is the client’s excess hair growth caused by a medical condition? Or is it a drug to treat the client’s medical condition that is causing the hair problem? The invaluable pull-out Drug Chart in this issue (the first update since June, 2001) is also available to subscribers on the Hair Route web site, www.hairroute.com. In three years, the pharmaceutical industry has cut 634 of the brand name drugs that were on the chart, and added back 406 new names to the list (for a total current list of 726 names). The Editors of IHR believe the Drug Chart is a worthy contribution to a 100th Issue, but if, in the mind of some readers we have failed to ballyhoo the occasion sufficiently, it is because we are saving ourselves for Issue Number 101 — International Hair Route’s Silver Anniversary Issue. In the December 2004 publication — celebrating IHR’s 25 years in the electrolysis arena — we will be taking a (somewhat biased) look at the Magazine’s quarter-century efforts to globally unite electrologists, manufacturers, and professional associations through the common goal of permanent hair removal. In a retrospective of those years we will examine the highs and lows and the movers and shakers who have changed the direction of our industry, for better or worse. Not only will we be looking back on this occasion, we’ll be looking forward, too. Forward to new articles on recent scientific research into hair growth, technological advancements in our electrolysis equipment, and innovation to the electrolysis procedure itself. Hair Route welcomes any contributions to this special issue from readers and well-wishers in the form of historical tidbits, short anecdotal stories, memories, or good advice for the coming 25 years. — Anthony D. Copperthwaite |
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