This one and a half page story on alopecia appeared in the January 15, 2000 issue of the colour supplement magazine that accompanies the Saturday edition of the Irish Independent.

It identifies the symptoms of the disease in it’s many variations, expands upon the probable causes and presents insights from a trichiologist and a leading Dublin dermatologist.

In it’s case study we meet Elizabeth Steel, an alopecia sufferer and founder of Hairline International.