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New treatment in the works for disfiguring skin disease, vitiligo

  • Written by John Harris, Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School
This African woman suffers from an autoimmune disease called vitiligo which causes the loss of skin pigment.By andreonegin/shutterstock.com

In many parts of the world there is great shame and stigma tied to vitiligo, an autoimmune disease of the skin that causes disfiguring white spots, which can appear anywhere on the body. In some societies,...

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