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You may have seen the headline that U.S. adults living with chronic disease are significantly less likely than healthy adults to have access to the internet (62% vs. 81%).  I finally got a ...

Herpetiform pemphigus was first introduced by Jablonska in 1975, as a variant of pemphigus that combines the clinical features of dermatitis herpetiformis with the immunological features of pemphigus. Because of its rare and ...

About six years ago, my doctor gave me some samples of a drug to treat pain from an injury. I took it for a few days and then woke up one morning ...

A federal judge on Monday struck down patents on two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The decision, if upheld, could throw into doubt the patents covering thousands of human genes ...

A former model who is now chronically ill and struggles just to shower says the people she has met online have become her family. A quadriplegic man uses the Web to share ...

As you read this issue I’m sure that you will be as amazed as I am about all the ways that members of the community reach out to serve others. This is ...

Part of the training in most psychology doctoral programs involves going through your own personal therapy or analysis. There are two main reasons for this: 1) It is important for psychologists to ...

  If anyone would have told me four years ago that I would be writing this narrative, I would not have believed them. My name is Susan Gonzales and I was diagnosed with ...

After being diagnosed in August 2007 with Bullous Pemphigoid (BP), I wondered what I could do to help others who were suffering with this disease. I felt that there had to be ...

Most people first come to the Annual Meeting when they are in the worst throes or the early stages of these diseases, in pain, angry, alone and uncertain.  Most leave having met ...