Regenerative Treatments: Microneedling and PRP

The treatment of hair disorders is an important part of clinical dermatology, given the prevalence of the problem and the great impact on patients’ quality of life. Many new treatments have been investigated in recent years, such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and microneedling, which have emerged as promising regenerative therapies. These techniques were initially used by the medical community in fields other than dermatology; however, they have recently started to be popular among dermatologists for stimulating follicular regeneration. Several studies and case reports have demonstrated the therapeutic effectiveness of PRP and microneedling in hair loss disorders, but more evidence-based studies are needed to establish their real benefits. Our experience leads us to suggest using these techniques in association with existing hair growth-promoting therapies, or alone when there are contraindications to medical treatments

The Strength of Cross‐Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish–Dutch Emergent Bilinguals: Testing Three Hypotheses

This study aimed to test three competing hypotheses concerning the strength of the cross-language relationship in listening comprehension proficiency in emergent bilinguals: Cummins's developmental linguistic interdependence hypothesis, Proctor, August, Snow, and Barr's interdependence continuum hypothesis, and Goodrich, Lonigan, Kleuver, and Farver's language independence hypothesis. We assessed 75 Turkish-Dutch bilingual children attending Dutch-medium schools using a two-wave design. This involved an assessment of sentence comprehension when the children were in preschool, followed by an assessment of their discourse comprehension in 1st grade. Correlational, multiple regression, and path analyses indicated significant positive and medium-sized L1-L2 relationships between listening comprehension proficiency at the two points in time yet not over time. These findings were consistent with the developmental linguistic interdependence hypothesis for sentence comprehension and with the developmental linguistic interdependence and the language independence hypotheses for discourse comprehension. We advocate a multidimensional explanatory framework to explore the moderating role of type of skill in determining the strength of the cross-language relationship