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Monday, November 16, 2009

The misuse of medical terminology as a marketing tool

I get annoyed every time I see the advertisement of Latisse on television. I (almost) got over the fact that they are selling a prostaglandin analog that may produce side effects when KGF would do a nice job naturally.

What I can't get over is that they are using "hypotrichosis" as a term to describe the lack of abundance of eyelashes.

Look at the definition of hypotrichosis here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrichosis

The etymology of hypotrichosis is easy: hypo Greek for under, and thrix, Greek for hair.

The marketing people for Latisse are implying that having shorter or less eyelashes is a medical condition, but it is not. But maybe this way they are telling the public that spending $400 and applying a prescription medicine on your eyes to get longer lashes is something you are doing to improve your health. It isn't, not when you are using a prostaglandin analog.

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