Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia in India: A Reminder of the World-Wide Epidemic
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
1M ago
First Report of FFA Cases in Northern India Several months ago, I had a discussion with a several colleagues. We spoke about FFA and the role of stress, diet, cosmetics, family history, hormones. Basically everything! Not too long into the discussion, a point was made by my colleague: “I don’t think we’re jseeing much FFA in India!” Another made the point that if this is indeed true that there must be important dietary and genetic reasons that need exploration. A new report in the Indian Journal of Dermatology reminds us that while FFA in India might be a little less frequent than some pockets ..read more
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1 in 20 Drugs that Get Approved Will Eventually Be Removed From Market
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
1M ago
When a new drug comes to market, I’m pretty excited. After all, it’s proof of something I fundamentally believe in : good science can create better treatments and help more people lead fuller lives. Whenever a new drug comes to market, I also remember something I learned many years ago: about 5 % of the time, the drug you are cheering about is going to eventually be removed from the market because of the harm it caused someone. Why are drugs removed? Drugs are removed from the market for several reasons. The top 4 reasons seem to be hepatotoxicity, cardiac disorders hypersensitivity and kidn ..read more
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Mice, Men and Evolving The Story of Topical Rosemary For Hair Loss
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
1M ago
Topical Rosemary Helps Males and Mice with Hair Loss: Anything Else is Simply A Guess There is a lot of excitement around the use of topical products containing Rosemary oil for hair loss. The reality is that we’re still not really sure how to use rosemary and we’re still not sure it truly helps all that much. A new study created some “buzz” as it showed rosemary helped grow hair in mice. This study is yet another study in the growing list of studies pointing to a favourable role for rosemary. Let’s take a look at the 2015 study that created quite a bit of interest in rosemary oil and then th ..read more
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Spironolactone: Should we also be checking zinc?
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
1M ago
A study from Japan examined risk factors for zinc deficiency. The researchers used a study population of 13,100 patients who had reliable data available for zinc levels. Interestingly, associations with zinc deficiency were noted among older adults, males, and inpatients. Following multivariate analysis, after adjusting for age and sex, there were significant associations with comorbidities, including pneumonitis (adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR) of 2.959), decubitus ulcer and pressure area (aOR 2.403), sarcopenia (aOR 2.217), COVID-19 (aOR 1.889), and chronic kidney disease (aOR 1.835). What was par ..read more
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Androgenetic Alopecia: What works?
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
2M ago
Article from Cutis Now Published I appreciated the opportunity to be invited by the journal Cutis to publish on androgenetic alopecia. This article can be downloaded in the following link Donovan, J. Androgenetic Alopecia: What works? Cutis 2024. For more information visit the Cutis website ..read more
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Year End Challenge 2023
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
3M ago
Year End Challenge: Myocarditis Following Adenoviral Infection In keeping with our year end tradition, the following situation was posted on our social medial channels. Participants had the opportunity to guess what was going on and how to help David. CHALLENGE CASE David is your healthy 28 year old male patient. He is on 5 mg of oral minoxidil and 0.5 mg dutasteride for treating hair loss.  He leaves a message on your office answering machine on new year’s eve wanting to know what he should do to help his feet swelling and dizziness. There is nobody in the office to take his phone call ..read more
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WELCOME TO THE NEW EBHF PARTICIPANTS!
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
3M ago
EBHF: 100 participants from 30 countries for 20 months .... with one main goal: … to develop a new level of expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of hair loss! Just one week to go until I welcome 100 incredible hair loss specialists for a 20 month journey through the Evidence Based Hair Fellowship (EBHF) training program. Participants meet weekly online for a challenging but fun program that stimulates the brain to think and problem solve like an expert. The journey starts off with 7 weeks of some of the most important material - the basic principles of hair loss diagnosis and treatment. W ..read more
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Patients with Scarring Alopecia Are At Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
3M ago
Males with Primary Scarring Alopecia are At Particularly Increased Risk Authors of a new study set out to determine if patients with primary scarring alopecia are at increased risk to develop cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease or stroke. The authors from Korea performed a nationwide longitudinal cohort study of 406,016 patients including 7,986 with primary scarring alopecia, 78,590 with non scarring alopecia and 319, 440 controls without hair loss. Patients were from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database from 2013 to 2020. Patients were followed up until Dec 31 202 ..read more
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Top 20 Hair Research Studies of 2023
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
3M ago
Listen to the Recording of the Top 20 Studies of 2023 The following is a recording from the live webinar held Dec 13 2023. It is an annual webinar that celebrates that top 20 hair research studies of the prior year ..read more
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Autoimmune, Atopic, Metabolic, and Psychiatric Comorbidities in CCCA
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by Dr. Jeff Donovan
3M ago
Comorbidities in CCCA  A new study showed that patients with CCCA have a higher prevalence of  autoimmune, atopic, metabolic, and psychiatric comorbidities. Prior studies have examined some of the cormorbidites that might exist with CCCA. Some of these studies suggested that CCCA is associated with several comorbidities including diabetes, metabolic dysfunction, bacterial scalp infections and uterine leiomyomas.   Joshi et al 2023 Authors of a new study set out to investigate comorbidities that are associated with CCCA. The database used was the National Institute of Health’s Al ..read more
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