Dear Doctors: I am a healthy 23-year-old woman. I started noticing extra hairs in my brush, and then my mom found two bald spots on the back of my head. I did a telehealth appointment and they said it ...

Dr. Crystal Aguh’s research shows promising results for reversing “devastating” hair loss. Alopecia, a general term used to describe hair loss, impacts Black women disproportionately. Nearly half of ...

For many people, alopecia areata presents as small, well-defined patches of hair loss on the scalp. But for others with severe cases, the unpredictable autoimmune disease can progress to a complete ...

Alopecia areata – commonly known as hair loss - to the partial or complete absence of hair where it normally grows. Doctors say that while it can be a symptom of various conditions, a few of which ...

The sudden and complete hair loss that you describe is quite different. It is one of several forms of alopecia areata, an autoimmune condition that affects about 2% of all people. Alopecia is the ...

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Dear Doctors: I am a healthy 23-year-old woman. I started noticing extra hairs in my brush, and then my mom found two bald spots on the back of my head. I did a telehealth appointment and they said it ...

Dear Doctors: At about 26 years old, my father became sick and lost all of his hair. Not only did he lose hair on his head, he had no eyebrows, eyelashes or beard and even lost the hair on his arms ...