Advance approaches in alopecia

From Targets to Treatments: Bridging Autoimmune Research to Advance Understanding of Alopecia Areata.

Alopecia areata is a common autoimmune skin disease resulting in the loss of hair on the scalp and elsewhere on the body that affects over 146 million people worldwide at some point in their lives. Founded in 1981, the National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF) is a nonprofit organization that supports research to find a cure or acceptable treatment for alopecia areata, supports those with the ...

Novel Team‐Based Approaches to Advance Academic Translational Research

Approaches to advance scientific understanding of macrosystems ecology

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org M ecological studies are conducted by measuring responses to stressors within populations, communities, or ecosystems. The interactions of basic building blocks of ecological systems – from atoms to organisms, with each other and with the environment – aggregate to form broad-scale ecological patterns. Local-scale research on these ...

Keeping all options open: Parents’ approaches to advance care planning

BACKGROUND Early engagement in advance care planning (ACP) is seen as fundamental for ensuring the highest standard of care for children and young people with a life-limiting condition (LLC). However, most families have little knowledge or experience of ACP. OBJECTIVE To investigate how parents of children and young people with LLCs approach and experience ACP. METHODS Open-ended, semi-stru...

Eye involvement in Alopecia Areata

Background: Alopecia areata is a patchy hair loss that may occur in any hair bearing area on the body. There are many reports of ocular abnormalities such as lens and retinal changes in alopecia areata. Objective: To evaluate ocular alterations in alopecia areata with regard to the lens and retina. Patients & Methods: Seventy three patients with alopecia areata including 34 males and 39 f...