Cure for baldness and alopecia

A patient after 4 months of taking the alopecia pill

A treatment has been developed that could cure alopecia and soon become
a standard treatment for the condition. The treatment consits of a pill,
to be taken twice a day and patients can expert their hair to grow back
in the space of 5 months.

Further tests will now be performed by researches in the hope
that it will become a standard treatment.
Alopecia is believed to be caused by the immune system and destoys
the hair follicles causing the hair to fall out. Eventually some
people's hair grows back but some people live with alopecia and baldness their whole life.
                                                             

One patient before and after the alopecia treatment

TV Presenter Gail Porter is a sufferer
to this illness.
It is estimated that one in
every 500 to 1 in 1,000
people in the
UK have alopecia areata.