June 2020

Editor’s Note: Lura R (East Texas, USA) primed the Land of Chat “Sharing Pump” on June 13, 2020 with an eight-word post. She wrote: “Does everyone else stay cold all the time?” What follows is the response from 18 kindred spirits. PRP Facebookers can access the unabridged version. If you want to add your own […]

Under Relentless Pressure Murray Rose Accepts Liaison Assignment Editor’s Note: While “relentless pressure” may be an overstatement, Murray Rose, (Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) has always been on my “short list” to help launch PRP Canada. How short was the list? Murray was the only name. The first symptoms of PRP appeared to Murray in August

Editor’s Note PRP can cause hair loss on parts of the body or hair loss over the entire body. In addition, some medications, such as retinoids and immunosuppressives, can cause hair loss to one degree or another. It differs with each individual. While some only have mild thinning, others may lose all their hair, including

The 5-D itch scale: a new measure of pruritus Authors: S. Elman, L.S. Hynan, V. Gabriel, and M.J. Mayo Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine Background Itching is a subjective and multidimensional experience which is difficult to quantify. Most methodologies to assess itching suffer from being unidimensional, for example only measuring intensity without impact on