Experimental Alopecia Pill Shows Promise

If this year’s Oscars did anything, it put the severe form of hair loss known as alopecia in the limelight. The disease causes the body’s immune system to attack hair follicles, resulting in patchy hair loss, or in some cases total hair loss. Currently, there are no approved treatments for the disease. But according to a recent Boston Globe article, those afflicted with the condition have new hope in the form of a pill. An experimental treatment from Concert Pharmaceuticals has restored a near full head of hair in roughly 30-40% of people with alopecia.