A pulsed regimen may reduce the risks associated with long-term steroid use in a paediatric/young adult cohort. A 7-year-old girl is seen in paediatric clinic for review of her alopecia areata (AA).

Alopecia areata doesn’t usually need treatment. But medicine (most often topical steroids) applied to the scalp may help hair grow back faster. Sometimes, for older kids and teens, doctors recommend ...

Of the case reports available on this topic, alopecia has commonly been localised to the scalp and associated with erenumab use; however, not as much has been reported for fremanezumab nor for ...

Alopecia areata (al-uh-PEE-shuh air-ee-AH-tuh) is a condition that causes hair loss on the scalp and sometimes elsewhere on the body. Both boys and girls can get alopecia areata, which can begin at ...