"Speaking of Vitiligo..."

Ever since the report from Yale published about a vitiligo patient who improved after using Xeljanz (tofacitinib) and then our report about Jakafi (ruxolitinib) in another patient, there has been

Many of you have commented on this blog and sent emails asking about the results of a trial we conducted a number of years ago to test simvastatin (brand name Zocor) as a treatment for vitiligo

I just returned from the first Vitiligo International Symposium (VIS) held in Rome, Italy, where physicians and scientist from all over the world met to discuss their research. It was a great

I am sitting on the plane to Washington DC, preparing to attend the first World Vitiligo Day rally. Many are scheduled to attend, including patients, physician experts, researchers, and others who

Recent Interview with DermTube.com "Ask an Expert", hosted by Adam Friedman, MD about the need to understand vitiligo as a skin disease, not simply a cosmetic concern, and stresses the

Well, here it is, the vitiligo awareness video that we began working on last September, 2015! “Vitiligo: Truth, Hope and Change”, and features a variety of vitiligo patients, their family members

Did Michael Jackson have vitiligo? First, we know that he stated that he had vitiligo, although this was not until many years after rumors were flying about his “turning white” and his many surgeries.

One of the most frequent questions asked by my patients and their families is about the role of diet and supplements in the treatment of their vitiligo. A quick search on the internet will return

I previously blogged about a trial conducted in the US to test the ability of afamelanotide (Scenesse) to improve the response of vitiligo patients to narrow band UVB (nbUVB). More recently,