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This article discusses the rise of direct-to-consumer teledermatology platforms, warning that they might cause overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and fragmented healthcare, and emphasizes the need for patient counseling about these risks and benefits.

Direct-to-consumer teledermatology is not effectively reaching underserved populations due to language, technology, and insurance barriers.

This article discusses various limitations of direct-to-consumer teledermatology platforms, highlighting concerns regarding ethical issues, financial conflicts of interest, and challenges in providing comprehensive patient care compared to traditional in-person consultations.

This narrative review reported that direct-to-consumer teledermatology improves access to care, adherence, and patient satisfaction for treating male androgenetic alopecia, but may lead to higher drug costs.

This study found that users of a German direct-to-consumer teledermatology platform for finasteride reported improvements in hair appearance and self-esteem, though 12% experienced treatment-related adverse events.

This review discusses the potential conflicts of interest and quality concerns associated with direct-to-consumer teledermatology platforms and reports no new experimental results.

This commentary discusses ethical concerns with direct-to-consumer teledermatology services, highlighting potential conflicts of interest and issues with care quality.

This abstract highlights the urgent need for rigorous research, quality assessment tools, and health economics analyses to integrate DTC telemedicine with traditional primary care for improved healthcare quality and efficiency.

This study found that the increasing visits to online prescription platforms for MQ-based finasteride treatment in androgenetic alopecia suggest a significant shift in medical care towards digital health services.

Discount pharmacies offer cheaper options for hair loss medications than traditional or direct-to-consumer pharmacies.

Dermatologist visits offer safer and more ethical treatment for hair loss than direct-to-consumer platforms.

Medical questionnaires could modernize healthcare by improving access and efficiency but need guidelines to ensure quality care.

This study found that artificial intelligence assistance improved diagnostic accuracy in dermatologic cases for primary care physicians and nurse practitioners, with higher agreement rates with reference diagnoses observed.

This study found that topical finasteride mixed with minoxidil improved hair appearance and self-esteem in men with androgenetic alopecia, but it was not superior to oral finasteride and had lower treatment adherence.

This study found that self-supervised pretraining significantly improves accuracy in medical image classifiers for dermatology and chest X-ray tasks, outperforming supervised baselines and showing robustness to distribution shifts with limited labeled data.

The document lists various dermatology topics, treatments, and diagnostic methods.

This systematic review reports that "COVID toes" and other skin manifestations can be initial signs of COVID-19, and advises immunosuppressive therapy adjustments only for infected or at-risk patients.

This article reviews evidence- and consensus-based recommendations for using pegvaliase in adults with PKU and reports no new clinical results.

This review discusses the expanding applications of dermoscopy in dermatological diagnosis beyond its initial use for detecting dysplastic nevi and reports no new clinical results.

In this study, long-term low-dose finasteride use in men with alopecia was associated with a significant reduction in the diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer, although further research is needed to understand the mechanisms and long-term effects.

This study evaluated AI chatbots' responses to scabies-related questions, finding DeepSeek had the highest accuracy despite higher hallucination rates, while ChatGPT-5.2 provided more readable and reliable information, highlighting variability and the need for cautious use of AI in health queries.

This study found that Indulekha Bringha scalp serum significantly reduced hair shedding and improved hair density more effectively than 3% Redensyl serum in healthy Indian adults experiencing hair loss.

In this scoping review, researchers observed that while AI-assisted trichoscopy holds promise for standardized assessments of hair and scalp disorders, its clinical translation is limited by small proprietary datasets, inconsistent validation protocols, and a scarcity of real-world clinical studies.

This study reviews the etiology and treatment of skin cancer, focusing on nanotechnology's role in addressing drug resistance and evaluating nanoparticles' potential to improve treatment outcomes, including overcoming multidrug resistance.

The researchers reported a rapid expansion of direct-to-consumer telemedicine services in Australia since the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by substantial investment and changes in telehealth regulations.

Finasteride is advertised directly to consumers for treating male pattern hair loss.

In this assessment of existing research on DTC commercial virtual care, it is highlighted that impacts on care quality, health outcomes, system use, and privacy ethics remain unclear, with potential bias noted due to industry financial connections.

This study emphasizes the need for a formal evaluation of direct-to-consumer telemedicine services in Australia to ensure safety, privacy, and ethical standards while maintaining high-quality healthcare.

This review examines the direct-to-consumer genetic testing market, highlighting the available tests, regulatory issues, and calls for increased oversight, and reports no new results.