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# Excellent Graphics!

## New Medical Article on Alopecia Areata

Every now and then an article about alopecia areata comes out that deserves everyone’s attention—this is one of them: [“Medical Progress: Alopecia Areata”](http://www.baldgirlsdolunch.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nejm_the_original.pdf) *(N Engl J Med 2012;366:1515-25)*.

![hair cycles](https://blog.baldgirlsdolunch.org/hs-fs/file-830990511-png/images/hair_cycles.png?width=485&name=hair_cycles.png "hair cycles")

For our community, we especially recommend the excellent photography, graphics and diagrammatic pairings of:

- Normal hair cycle compared to the hair cycle in alopecia areata
- Normal anagen follicle compared to the follicle in alopecia areata
- Theory of immune privilege collapse in alopecia areata

Check out the [article](http://www.baldgirlsdolunch.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/nejm_the_original.pdf) and see what you think.

The authors—Drs. Amos Gilhar and Amos Etzioni (of Haifa, Israel) and Dr. Ralf Paus (of Lubeck, Germany and Manchester, England)—believe it’s important for people to understand normal hair growth so they can better understand abnormal hair growth.

We think you’ll find the graphics of the follicle structures and their micro-environments, along with the vocabulary used to describe them, very useful in understanding alopecia areata.

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