By Sholnn Z. Freeman Howard University medical scientist Angel S. Byrd is leading efforts to raise awareness about a chronic skin condition that remains largely unknown to the public but has devastating effects — especially among Black women. Byrd, M.D., Ph.D., is a tenured professor and the Director of Research in the Department of Dermatology. Byrd and her medical colleagues at Howard University are at the forefront of bringing attention to hidradenitis suppurativa, or HS. HS is a painful and heavily stigmatized disease that causes inflammation, abscesses, and draining fluid around hair follicles, most commonly in the groin and underarm regions. People with the
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