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Vitiligo is not just a cosmetic issue, but a condition that can lead to depression, stigmatization, and low self-esteem, according to Dr. Jessica Shiu, an assistant professor of dermatology at the University of California, Irvine. Vitiligo is an autoimmune condition that results in the destruction of melanocytes, leading to milky white patches of skin. Treatment options include topical steroids, topical calcineurin inhibitors, and a JAK inhibitor called ruxolitinib cream. Phototherapy can also be combined with topical treatment to enhance repigmentation. Surgical options, such as tissue grafts and cellular grafts, are available for more extensive cases. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the management of vitiligo, emphasizing that it is not merely a cosmetic issue but can have significant impacts on mental health and social well-being. Dr. Jessica Shiu explains the autoimmune nature of vitiligo, its different subtypes, and the importance of determining disease activity for effective treatment. Treatment options include topical steroids, calcineurin inhibitors, and the FDA-approved JAK inhibitor, ruxolitinib. Combining phototherapy with topical treatments is recommended to enhance repigmentation in patients with vitiligo. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the discovery that follicle cells triggered by hair movements release neurotransmitters histamine and serotonin, providing insights into how gentle touch influences feelings and mood.

The article offers information on the potential discovery of a cure for baldness found in the molecules within hair-growing moles. It discusses that researchers have identified a molecule called osteopontin that activates dormant hair follicles; leading to robust hair growth in mice; and also offering new treatments for androgenetic alopecia, commonly known as male-pattern baldness in men and affecting millions of people.

The article focuses on new research that challenges the traditional understanding of graying hair. The study suggests that "stuck" stem cells in the hair follicle are responsible for gray hair; and it reveals a cycle in which these stem cells mature; perform their hair-coloring duties; and then revert back to their primitive form. The findings may lead to new therapies to prevent or reverse gray hair and could also have implications for melanoma treatment.

This article discusses advancements in baldness treatment research discovered through an exploration of vitamin D and vitamin D receptors' roles in the hair-growth process. Topics include an explanation of why topical supplement products are not effective for people who are already bald, a description of the normal hair growth cycle, and a discussion of vitamin D receptors' role in the use of stem cells to generate hair follicles.

The article focuses on the new linear scar free follicular unit extraction (FUE) hair transplantation method for African descents with the help of latest FUE equipment UPunch Curl and outlines the features and successful results of UPunch Curl.

The article offers tips for re-growing eyebrows. Topics discussed include massaging the eyebrow area using a circular motion in the mornings and the evenings, taking biotin and other B-vitamins including riboflavin, B-6 and B-12 which help in stimulating healthy hair growth, and using the eyebrow re-growth serum Librow that contain natural ingredients that works by stimulating the follicles to encourage re-growth.

The article offers tips for re-growing eyebrows. Topics discussed include massaging the eyebrow area using a circular motion in the mornings and the evenings, taking biotin and other B-vitamins including riboflavin, B-6 and B-12 which help in stimulating healthy hair growth, and using the eyebrow re-growth serum Librow that contain natural ingredients that works by stimulating the follicles to encourage re-growth.

The article offers tips for re-growing eyebrows. Topics discussed include massaging the eyebrow area using a circular motion in the mornings and the evenings, taking biotin and other B-vitamins including riboflavin, B-6 and B-12 which help in stimulating healthy hair growth, and using the eyebrow re-growth serum Librow that contain natural ingredients that works by stimulating the follicles to encourage re-growth.

The article offers tips for re-growing eyebrows. Topics discussed include massaging the eyebrow area using a circular motion in the mornings and the evenings, taking biotin and other B-vitamins including riboflavin, B-6 and B-12 which help in stimulating healthy hair growth, and using the eyebrow re-growth serum Librow that contain natural ingredients that works by stimulating the follicles to encourage re-growth.

The article focuses on a study conducted by researchers Angela M. Christiano and Colin Jahoda at the Columbia University Medical Center which devised a hair restoration method that can generate new human hair growth. Christiano states that the method induces or rejuvenates hair follicles and it can transform the medical treatment of hair loss. It mentions that this approach will be effective for female-pattern hair loss, scarring alopecia, and hair loss due to burns.

THERE'S enough questionable facial hair around this month to put a ZZ Top reunion tour to shame. Our rugby heroes are at the forefront of the Movember drive and because it's for charity and all that we'll stop short of slagging them. (Our feelings here are probably driven by the fact it would be Mebruary before we'd have anything to be proud of, such is our lack of follicle ferocity). Anyway, as so many struggle to get going before December arrives to save blushes, it was the sheer dedication to the cause across the pond that grabbed us, well, by the short and curlys this week. Brian Wilson (above) sporting one of baseball's finest beards, turned down the chance of a multi-million dollar, career-defining move to the New York Yankees because the team's strict clubhouse rules prohibit facial hair. How some of our Movember try-hards would love to be faced with such a quandary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MY DAUGHTER is only ten, and already she knows how to use a curling wand. Admittedly, she does this under strict adult supervision (i.e. me sitting on the edge of the bed yelling: 'No, no, too hot, too hot!'); nevertheless, she is growing up in a world of hi-tech beauty gadgetry, where every grooming need has an electronic solution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article provides an answer to a question of a medical intervention that could alter the shape of the hair follicle and the texture of the hair.

Q. The hair on one's head grows ever longer, seemingly without limit, but the hair on one's legs seems to grow to a certain length and stop. Does trimmed hair somehow ''know'' to regrow to its maximum length? A. ''Cutting or trimming hair has no effect on its cycle or ultimate length,'' said Dr. Richard D. Granstein, chairman of the department of dermatology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. ''Hair is dead, and cutting it does not send a signal to the hair follicle.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Q.My son, who had pin-straight hair at birth, developed very curly hair at puberty. Is this because the hair follicles change shape, perhaps influenced by hormone shifts? A. The straightness or curliness of hair has long been linked to the shape of hair follicles, and some researchers think that changing hormones may affect them at stages like puberty, pregnancy and menopause. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Something is killing the little brown bats of the Northeast, and researchers may have fingered the culprit: a fungus. David S. Blehert of the United States Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin and colleagues identified a fungus linked to white-nose syndrome, a condition that has affected bats in recent winters in upstate New York, Massachusetts and Vermont. The fungus, a newly described member of the genus Geomyces, is unusual in that it grows in the cold, dotting areas of the bat's skin with white strands. It penetrates the skin through hair follicles and sweat glands and may cause the bats to starve as they hibernate, the researchers said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Answers the question on what signals the eyebrows to stop growing because they always grow back to their original length after being shaved or plucked. Three-phase cycle of growth of hair follicles; Anagen phase or growth period; Catagen phase, which is the regression period with dwindling cell activity and the programmed death of some cells; Telogen phase, in which the hair shaft is lost.

Presents a study by Doctors Tung-Tien Sun and Robert M. Lavker which discovered that epidermal stem cells migrate from the hair follicles' bulge into surrounding skins. Significance of the study; How stem cells are replenished.

Discusses the gene known as Sonic hedgehog (SHH) and its role in growth of hair follicles. Dr. Ronald G. Crystal's leadership of research at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Description of the experiment in which hair growth was stimulated in young mice; Potential use of the therapy in humans.

Reports on claims of Anticancer Inc.'s scientists in June 1995 that they have found ways to insert new genes in hair follicles. Details about the study and its results.