Finasteride for Male Pattern Hair Loss Therapeutic Cheat Sheet
Male pattern hair loss is a commonly encountered complaint in dermatology offices that causes patients significant distress and anxiety. Patients are looking for answers and have often heard of finasteride, but are concerned about potential side effects such as sexual dysfunction. We continue our series, Therapeutic Cheat Sheet, with a closer look at finasteride.
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Male pattern hair loss is a commonly encountered complaint in dermatology offices that causes patients significant distress and anxiety. Patients are looking for answers and have often heard of finasteride, but are concerned about potential side effects such as sexual dysfunction. We continue our series, Therapeutic Cheat Sheet, with a closer look at finasteride.
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SECURE-Alopecia is a physician-entered patient registry to record COVID-19 positive alopecia patient outcomes, on or off treatment, with scarring and non-scarring alopecia. Clinicians worldwide are encouraged to report ALL cases of COVID-19 in their alopecia patients treated with antimalarials, JAK inhibitors (given the … 
Next Steps in Derm author, Dr. Anna Chacon, searched the journals so that you don’t have to! She reports on important take-aways from different dermatology journals for the months of April, May, and June of 2019.
It is key to keep in mind that “important” is subjective and what is contained in this review is one person’s view of what should be remembered from these months of the literat … 
In part 1 of the Integrative Hair Care series, we covered “what to eat for optimal hair care”— sharing tips we can recommend to patients for hair health, with the demystification of some common food and supplement items. If you missed it, be sure to check it out here!
In part 2, we will focus on treatments for hair loss, with an emphasis on androgenetic alopecia. There are different typ … 
If I could think of a dermatologic condition with which patients are most often in tears, hair loss would definitely be on the top of my list. For both males and females alike, the impact that hair has on our sense of identity is undeniable. No, it's not life-threatening, but the psychological distress can be quite significant-- which often transfers right onto the dermatologist. Because tre … 