Background: Topical immunotherapy with diphencyprone (DPCP) for the treatment of severe alopecia areata has been used since 1983 and is felt to be the treatment of choice for chronic extensive alopecia areata. Highly variable results have been reported. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of DPCP in the treatment of chronic, extensive alopecia areata and to assess the...

A decade after ICD-10 s implementation, NCHS officials say they have seen both the good and the bad. ICD-10 has provided them with more specific data, which has been beneficial to NCHS s work in categorizing mortality statistics. But the transition to ICD-10 was a bumpy one for mortality coders and statisticians, according to Robe Anderson, PhD, chief of the mortality statistics branch of the D...