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Jan 16, 2020 · Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., disclosed Thursday that she has alopecia areata, a condition that results in the loss of hair on the scalp and elsewhere.
- Janelle Griffith
- National Reporter
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- Could A Gene Therapy Someday Help Correct Alopecia?
Goldberg: In addition to being a dermatologist, I am also a dermatopathologist, which means I read skin biopsies (including scalp biopsies done to diagnose hair loss). I engage in mostly clinical research on the [microscopic] features of different types of hair loss, have trained many dermatology residents and dermatopathology fellows on how to eva...
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that has both a genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. Different patients have different triggers, and stress can definitely play a role. Sometimes no trigger is identified.
Once you have alopecia areata you always have it. This is part of the reason that the disease is so difficult to deal with. Some patients can have a single small patch of hair loss that regrows spontaneously. Others can have a few patches that come and go. Still others have multiple patches that require treatment to regrow. The most severe form of ...
Female pattern hair loss, or androgenetic alopecia, is the most common cause of hair loss in women seen by medical providers. It is an inherited sensitivity to normal male hormones, or androgens, that causes thinning of scalp hair, often on the top of the head and the temples. It does not cause bald patches.
Alopecia areata is a very difficult condition to deal with for both men and women. It is unpredictable in onset, duration, extent, and course, and has the capacity to lead to severe, long-standing hair loss. It is not unusual for affected patients to seek counseling, and local support groups exist which can be very beneficial.
This is something we can hope for. The genetics of the disease would have to be clarified and the specific causative gene located before it can be used as a therapeutic target.
Jan 16, 2020 · In a moving interview with The Root, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley opened up about living with alopecia and revealed that she has gone completely bald.
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- Madeleine Carlisle
Jan 17, 2020 · Rep. Ayanna Pressley appears in a video for The Root, the African American-focused online magazine, in which she reveals her bald head and talks about living with alopecia.
Jan 17, 2020 · Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts on Thursday publicly revealed for the first time that she has an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. Pressley, whose Senegalese twists were her...
Jan 16, 2020 · Representative Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, revealed in a video released on Thursday that she has a condition called alopecia and is now bald. “This is about acceptance,” Ms....
Jan 17, 2020 · US congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has revealed she is completely bald because of the hair-loss condition alopecia. The Massachusetts Democrat told The Root that she started noticing her hair...
