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March 8th, 2006

Primer on Alopecia Areata

Baldness has many origins. One is alopecia areata. (By the way, my baldness is good old fashioned male pattern.) There’s a good primer at Wikipedia.org. An excerpt:
Alopecia areata is thought to be an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly treats its hair follicles as foreign tissue and suppresses or stops hair growth. It is […]

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