CCCA patients experience longer diagnostic delays, with a mean TTD of 5.67 years, compared to other scarring alopecias. Black patients face longer diagnostic delays, but alopecia subtype is the only ...

Marissa Joseph, MD, MSc, FRCPC, medical director at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, highlighted cases from her practice to illustrate the recommended approach to scarring ...

Scarring alopecia, or cicatricial alopecia, encompasses a group of disorders characterised by permanent hair loss due to the destruction of hair follicles and their replacement with scar tissue. This ...

Lower doses of a common antibiotic can curb hair loss caused by a rare skin condition, a new study says. The antibiotic doxycycline is commonly used to treat lymphocytic scarring alopecia, a condition ...

Cicatricial alopecia encompasses a diverse group of inflammatory conditions that result in irreversible hair loss due to the permanent destruction of hair follicles and their replacement with fibrous ...

Medically reviewed by Katlein Franca, MD Key Takeaways CCCA is a type of hair loss that mainly affects Black women and begins with hair loss at the top of the head.Early treatment for CCCA can stop ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered Podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD’s Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Today we're talking about alopecia ...

A low-level light therapy cap may be a safe, convenient treatment for some patients with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, though the treatment effects from a small prospective trial appear to ...