FAMILY HANDOUT Dr Alicia Pylpyczuk worked as an emergency doctor in Manchester but took her own life in February 2020 after battling depression triggered by alopecia Earlier this year a new drug to treat severe alopecia – an autoimmune condition that causes hair loss – was given the green light for NHS use. Some are … Read more
2 hours ago By Gemma Dunstan, BBC Wales Live BBC Poppie Davies says she now wants to help others with alopecia When Poppie Davies’s hairdresser noticed a bald patch when she was just 16, it ended with her unable to look in the mirror as she lost her hair to alopecia. The 21-year-old from Cardiff said it … Read more
People living with one of the most common types of alopecia could soon have access to treatment on the NHS in Scotland for the first time. The drug – called Ritlecitinib – will go before the Scottish Medicines Consortium this week after it was approved for NHS use in England last month. Although the daily … Read more
The daily pill, ritlecitinib or Litfulo, helps fight inflammation that can lead to hair loss. Source link
July 19, 2022 – For many people with severe alopecia areata, who have lived with baldness, or with scalps only sparsely dotted with hair, or with missing eyebrows or lashes, the future has a new look. “There’s this unbelievable momentum,” Brett King, MD, an associate professor of dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine … Read more
March 28, 2022 — Last night’s Academy Awards ceremony is a buzzing topic of conversation today. Troy Kotsur became the first deaf man to win an Oscar – and the highly coveted best supporting actor award, at that. But it was what happened afterward that arguably stole the show. Viewers and audience members alike watched … Read more