Comment by Cheryl, Co-founder on August 20, 2014 at 1:03am

I found this on NAAF official website:  

NAAF Encouraged by Yale University School of Medicine Study

The National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF) is encouraged by the results of an 8-month course of treatment conducted by researchers at Yale Univer... in which a 25-year-old male patient with alopecia areata universalis was able to regrow a full head of hair, along with eyebrows, eyelashes, and facial, armpit, and other hair when put on a regimen of tofacitinib citrate, an FDA-approved treatment for arthritis.  The drug has also been successfully used in the treatment of psoriasis. 

While we remain hopeful, we wish to remind the alopecia areata community this is a preliminary study with the effects of the drug studied on only one individual.  It should be considered preliminary and not validated at this point, and remains to be further studied in clinical trials.  

A clinical trial with this drug will be starting at Columbia University in the fall of 2014.

You can read the above on NAAF site:  

http://www.naaf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_clinical

Comment by manuel j. torres on September 3, 2014 at 11:07pm

I've attended that "clinical trial" and the exact words to me were " we can't accept you because you completely have no hair and you had male pattern baldness before your universalis therefor we won't know if our treatment would work"

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