While alopecia can present hair care challenges, it doesn’t have to mean sacrificing natural hairstyles. Embracing natural hair can be a powerful way for black women to cope with the emotional effects ...

At the time of alopecia areata diagnosis, 30.9% of patients had psychiatric comorbidities compared with 26.8% of unmatched controls without alopecia areata (P<0.001), while 16.1% versus 8.9%, ...

Additional research has linked some cases of alopecia areata to drugs known as monoclonal antibodies. These are lab-grown proteins that mimic the body’s own antibodies. Currently, there is no cure for ...

Miss USA contestant Mary Sickler was diagnosed with alopecia universalis and lost all hair. The model the first to compete ...

Waking up to find clumps of hair on your pillow or discovering smooth, round patches where thick hair once grew can be absolutely devastating. This jarring experience affects millions of people ...

Imagine being a child, enjoying the simple joys of growing up, only to start losing your hair without explanation. It's an experience that, for many, can be disorienting and unsettling. And it was the ...

Q: 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 and legs. Do ...

I used to cut hair. Now I sell it. The transition began 23 years ago, when I was a busy hairdresser with an ironic condition: I developed alopecia areata, an autoimmune skin disease where the body’s ...

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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 ...