A prevalent myth is that sunlight exacerbates vitiligo, leading to the development of more patches. In reality, moderate sun ...

Skin pigmentation disorders affect people across the world. One of them, vitiligo, is said to have a worldwide incidence of 1 ...

There could be new hope for people afflicted with the skin-discoloring disease, vitiligo. A new treatment reportedly works ...

And this has been my life since I developed vitiligo, a skin condition caused by a malfunction of the immune system. This causes white patches on the skin that are completely devoid of pigment due ...

El-Nazer, who is a former head of the National Research Institute, explained that vitiligo is a chronic autoimmune condition that causes patches of skin to lose pigment and turn milky white.

When medical interventions fail, melanocyte keratinocyte transplantation may be the most advanced procedural option for ...

A sugar produced by soil bacteria may be able to stop the loss of skin pigment caused by vitiligo. Injecting the molecule into mice with the autoimmune disease slowed the rate of the rodents ...

SheKnows: How do you manage your nonsegmental vitiligo? Lisa: I see a dermatologist regularly to check my skin, track my pigmentation, and oversee my treatment. To help repigment my skin ...

Vitiligo is believed to be an autoimmune condition where the body attacks its own healthy melanin-producing skin cells by mistake. It may be hereditary or triggered by a particular event like ...

The product reduced killer T cells that attack the skin's pigment and increased protective regulatory T cells, which are typically scarce in vitiligo patients. "This simple microbial compound could ...

Last year, Incyte became the first pharma company to get approval for a drug that can re-pigment the skin in vitiligo – topical JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor Opzelura (ruxolitinib) – for patients whose ...

Northwestern researchers have made notable advancements in medicine and physics in the past week. The Daily compiled a recap ...