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Let's Talk: Jessica Schexnayder

Jessica Schexnayder is an author and South Louisiana native living with neurologic and autoimmune disease. She is the GBS/CIDP Foundation International patient point of contact for Baton Rouge, La., and surrounding areas...
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Protecting Your Pearly Whites

For Individuals diagnosed with primary immunodeficiency (PI), maintaining optimal oral health can be a challenge since their lack of antibodies or immune cells makes it difficult to fight infections, especially those impacting the mouth and gums... full article (pdf)

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Ask the Experts

Reader: Can Anything Be Done to Stop Pleuritic Pain Caused by Subcutaneous Immune Globulin (SCIG) Therapy?

Abbie: I spoke with one of our experts, and he said the side effects you describe are atypical for IG infusions, but may be a delayed type of inflammatory reaction ...
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Meet the Staff

Ronale Tucker Rhodes, MS
Editor

Cheryl Brooks
Assistant Editor

Abbie Cornett
Patient Advocate

Advisory Board

Bob Geng, MD, MA
Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy & Immunology
University of California, San Diego

Terry O. Harville,
MD, PhD
Medical Director Special Immunology Laboratory University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Todd Levine, MD
Director, Department of Neurophysiology Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology University of Arizona

Fred Modell
Co-founder of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation

Marc Riedl, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology University of California, San Diego

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Patient Advocate Abbie Cornett

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Disease States

Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T)

Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD)

Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating
Polyneuropathy (CIDP)

Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID)

DiGeorge Syndrome

Evans Syndrome

Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)

Hereditary Angioedema

Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)

Kawasaki Disease (KD)

Multifocal Motor Neuropathy (MMN)

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Myasthenia Gravis (MG)

Myositis

NEMO

Pemphigus and Pemphigoid

Peripheral Neuropathy (PN)

Primary Immune Deficiency Disease (PIDD)

Scleroderma

Scleromyxedema

Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

Stiff-person Syndrome (SPS)

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome