July 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This review explores the evidence for platelet-rich plasma, exosomes, and other regenerative therapies as adjuncts in hair transplantation, finding that PRP has the most support, but highlights the need for standardization and transplantation-specific studies.
June 2026 in “Food & medicine homology.” This study suggests that Epimedium can serve as a complementary and alternative treatment for chronic bone and joint diseases, potentially laying the groundwork for its clinical application.
June 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study conducted a large-scale comparison using FAERS data to assess the post-marketing safety profiles of spironolactone, eplerenone, and finerenone, finding unique adverse event patterns for each drug and highlighting the need for personalized safety monitoring and further investigation in other pharmacovigilance databases.
June 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This registry-based analysis observed rapid growth in hair-loss clinical trials between 2015 and 2025, highlighting regional concentration, prevalent therapeutic categories, and diverse outcome reporting while emphasizing the need for standardization and broader representation.
June 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This source reports that in men treated with 5α-reductase inhibitors for androgenetic alopecia, sexual adverse events such as decreased libido and erectile dysfunction occurred at rates from 1.9% to 12% in clinical trials, with effects often being mild and reversible upon stopping treatment.
June 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study evaluated the 308-nm excimer laser as an adjuvant treatment for frontal fibrosing alopecia and found it may stabilize hairline recession and improve erythema and perifollicular hyperkeratosis, with transient erythema as the only reported adverse effect.
June 2026 in “Frontiers in Marine Science” This study found that Codium sp. cultivated in IMTA systems can be a sustainable source of bioactive ingredients for skin care products, with various fractions providing photoprotective, wound-healing, and antimicrobial benefits in vitro.
June 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” In this randomized controlled trial, daily use of a hair serum containing plant extracts and manganese PCA improved scalp tightness, reduced discomfort, and enhanced hair growth quality in men post-hair transplant, suggesting its efficacy as a dermocosmetic adjuvant for long-term hair care.
June 2026 in “Frontiers in Materials” This review examines advancements in "smart" hydrogel dressings for complex wound healing, highlighting innovations in materials that provide multifunctionality, such as responsive drug delivery and regenerative capabilities. The study also addresses potential challenges in clinical application, like manufacturing and regulatory hurdles.
May 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study concluded that combining the Shumin treatment instrument with oral doxycycline provides better clinical outcomes for rosacea than combining red light therapy with doxycycline, while both regimens improved quality-of-life scores and reduced Demodex counts.
May 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study describes a patient with Rothmund–Thomson syndrome-like symptoms who displayed hair improvement after combination therapy, despite carrying an ANAPC1 gene variant of uncertain significance.
May 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study found that several demographic, familial, lifestyle, and metabolic factors were independently associated with androgenic alopecia, differing by severity across various subtype classifications.
May 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” In this study, a keratolytic shampoo with 2% salicylic acid was found to effectively reduce scab severity in male patients after hair transplantation without causing adverse symptoms, leading to high patient satisfaction and no recorded adverse events.
April 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study found that activating hair follicle resident T cells in a human organ culture can induce an alopecia areata-like immune response, and that the drug farudodstat partially reduced this effect.
In this study, the researchers used a human hair follicle model to demonstrate that T cell stimulation can induce an alopecia areata–like phenotype, with cell proliferation and immune privilege collapse; however, the DHODH inhibitor farudodstat partially mitigated these effects by reducing T cell proliferation.
April 2026 in “Frontiers in Marine Science” This study investigated neonatal mortality and health threats to Guadalupe fur seals in Mexico's San Benito Archipelago, finding a 29.52% mortality rate largely due to trauma and emaciation/infectious disease, with high rates of alopecia syndrome and entanglement linked to marine debris, primarily from local sources.
April 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study observed that 675-nm diode laser therapy may serve as a safe and possibly effective adjuvant treatment for telogen effluvium, showing improvements in hair pull test results, pruritus, and trichodynia among patients. However, controlled studies are needed to confirm its efficacy.
April 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” In this study, young female medical students at King Saud University reported a higher prevalence of physician-diagnosed PCOS compared to similar Western populations, and hirsutism was notably associated with the condition, highlighting the need for early screening and health education.
April 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” In this case report, a female patient with both psoriasis and lichen planus initially responded to acitretin and topical mometasone but experienced a relapse after stopping the treatment. The authors reported marked improvement within 3 months after switching to upadacitinib, aiming to guide clinical decision-making.
April 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This case study reports a 26-year-old male with secondary syphilitic alopecia misdiagnosed as alopecia areata, likely contracted through non-penetrative sexual contact. Effective treatment with intramuscular benzathine penicillin G led to complete hair regrowth within three months.
April 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study analyzed data from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System and found that enfortumab vedotin, used for urothelial carcinoma, is linked to various cutaneous adverse events, including severe reactions like Stevens–Johnson syndrome, typically occurring early in treatment and predominantly affecting elderly male patients.
March 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study provides a framework for understanding different types of alopecias based on immune privilege collapse at specific follicular sites, revealing distinct patterns in immune effector programs and stromal influences depending on the alopecia type.
March 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study reported that two male patients with diffuse unpatterned alopecia exhibited donor-area involvement in both the vertex and occiput, challenging the assumption of occipital stability for hair transplantation, and showed partial improvement following treatment with oral finasteride and topical minoxidil.
March 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study reviews advances in targeted therapies for moderate-severe dermatological conditions like plaque psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, reporting on newly approved treatments and highlighting the need for further innovations in managing rare inflammatory skin diseases through emerging laboratory techniques and trials.
March 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” In this review, recent studies on muscle atrophy are highlighted, revealing insights into its complex pathogenesis, therapeutic interventions such as hormone therapy, and diagnostic advancements, while emphasizing the need for personalized approaches and addressing challenges like small sample sizes and methodological diversity.
March 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” In this retrospective study, follicular unit excision was reported to effectively repair unsatisfactory hairlines in men with androgenetic alopecia, with 95% of 20 participants expressing satisfaction after the procedure and most experiencing successful outcomes with minimal scarring.
March 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study suggests that traditional classification systems for pattern hair loss, while useful in the past, have limitations in accuracy and reproducibility, and highlights the potential of integrating digital imaging and AI to create more precise and biologically informed classification frameworks.
February 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This study found that fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution in Hispanic male patients often resembles androgenetic alopecia, with a tendency for earlier onset compared to European and North American populations.
February 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” In this case report, a three-generation family with Gorlin-Goltz syndrome showed a heterozygous PTCH1 splice-donor variant associated with the disease, and two affected relatives benefited from individualized, side-effect-guided dosing of the drug sonidegib, experiencing regression of basal cell carcinoma lesions.
February 2026 in “Frontiers in Medicine” This case series described five patients with chronic alopecia areata who successfully maintained long-term disease control using a combination of topical immunotherapy and other treatments over 9–15 years, highlighting the approach's continued value alongside novel therapies.