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This study reports that the completeness of DNA degradation in hair during cornification varies among individuals and affects the success rates of forensic hair DNA analysis.

Hair loss is often linked to thyroid problems, especially in women and older people, and screening for thyroid issues is advised for those with hair loss.

This article discusses how racial essentialism impacts health professions education by increasing prejudice and reducing empathy, and it suggests reforms to emphasize racism as a cause of health inequity, without presenting new research data.

The paper suggests improving diagnosis and treatment of telogen effluvium but does not recommend a new classification system.

This review outlines best practices for providing culturally competent care to transgender patients and discusses considerations for assessing disease risk, but reports no new research findings.

This source outlines what it takes to be a competent provider for transgender individuals, focusing on their health needs, disparities, and coverage, and examines medical biases and hormone treatment guidelines, alongside treatment options for different age groups, concluding with evolving trends in medical education.

This case report describes oleoma on the thighs and buttocks appearing two years after an injection for cellulite treatment, suggesting the need for more research to ensure the procedure's safety and efficacy.

This review discusses lesser-known concerns in transgender dermatology, including neovaginal issues, neoplastic and autoimmune conditions, and the effects of unapproved injectable substances, but reports no new clinical findings.

This study developed a new method using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to measure multiple steroid hormones in hair, requiring significantly fewer strands than previous methods, with high accuracy and precision.

This study found that the Elastic Verhoeff–Van Gieson stain may help differentiate between follicular streamers and scars in cicatricial and noncicatricial alopecias by highlighting differences in the elastic fiber network on horizontal scalp biopsy sections.

This review discusses the cutaneous manifestations associated with various substances of abuse, highlighting their importance for clinicians in recognizing and treating substance abuse disorders, and reports no new findings.

This study found that epidermal melanocytes can regenerate hair follicles, whereas non-cutaneous or dermal melanocytes cannot, suggesting two distinct melanocyte lineages with potential implications for melanocyte-related diseases.

This study suggests that the rs2075876 variant in the AIRE gene may significantly increase susceptibility to alopecia areata in the examined male population.

This review discusses the expression of PSA in hormonally-regulated tissues and female malignancies, emphasizing its potential as a diagnostic biomarker and role in antidoping initiatives.

This study assessed various androgens' diagnostic effectiveness for hyperandrogenaemia in PCOS using ROC curve analysis, but it reports no specific new results.

This article reviews the pathogenesis of frontal fibrosing alopecia, highlighting the potential genetic and environmental contributions, particularly the use of sunscreens, and calls for further research into effective treatments.

This article explores how narratives around racial and ethnic minorities versus fat individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic influenced the framing of these groups as "at-risk," with disparities in blame and responsibility linked to structural racism and anti-obesity rhetoric.

This study demonstrated that both classical and atypical BSE strains from cattle can be transmitted to goats, highlighting the importance of surveillance in protecting public health.

This review discusses the role of case reports and series in medical publishing, highlighting their importance in reporting novel observations despite being undervalued due to methodological limitations.

This study found that coconut oil significantly increased the tensile strength of twisted hair fibers due to its ability to penetrate the hair core, in contrast to mineral oil.

This article discusses the substantial presence of advertising material in the original serial numbers of "The Pickwick Papers," accounting for almost one third of the content, but presents no new results.

This fact sheet discusses the impacts of zinc deficiency, including its effects on the immune system, cognitive function, and growth in children, and highlights the increased risk for those who consume alcohol excessively; it reports no new clinical results.

Men with a certain type of hair loss often use facial moisturizers, and a specific antibiotic treatment may help another hair condition.

This study introduced a noninvasive spectroscopy method to assess hair follicle stages in mice by measuring skin diffuse reflectance and melanin dynamics, offering a potential tool for hair regeneration research.

In this study of women aged 18-45 from an endocrine referral group, researchers found that while clinical hirsutism severity is independently associated with biochemical hyperandrogenism, the relationship is modest and suggests different biological aspects are at play.

This study reports that using machine learning models, particularly XGBoost and Random Forest, can accurately predict PCOS phenotypes based on non-invasive data, with cycle length as the most significant predictor.

In this study, the proposed MSF-VMDNet, combining dual encoder networks with a multi-frequency domain mechanism, significantly outperformed existing methods in segmenting skin cancer tissues from histological slide images, achieving high accuracy with an MIoU of 95.37% and a Dice coefficient of 95.11%.

In this narrative review, the authors found that stigma related to oculocutaneous albinism in Africa is primarily driven by socio-cultural beliefs and structural inequities, affecting individuals' health, education, and psychosocial well-being, with interventions needed to dispel myths and provide specialized healthcare and support.

This study highlights how combining genetic and environmental risk assessments could advance early screening and personalized prevention for vitiligo, given its genetic complexity and environmental interactions.

This study identified a four-gene loop as a non-invasive biomarker that selectively activates in alopecia areata, providing a precise target for JAK inhibitor treatments.