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Mobilizing Your Community to Donate Plasma Michelle Vogel, MPA, & Linda Kobert, RN, MSN Immune globulin (Ig) is a frequent treatment for pemphigus and pemphigoid (P/P) diseases. Even though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved Ig for use in P/P, doctors have demonstrated its effectiveness with these diseases and achieved a Medicare national coverage determination. This determination means even private insurance companies will cover this therapy for P/P.

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