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Facing a rare and potentially life-threatening disease can be a terrifying experience. Veteran patients need to keep up with constant improvements in treatment. New patients have a lot to learn. Either way you need current and accurate information to make wise health decisions. Patient education is our specialty. Our first priority is your health. So let's get started. Join us.
The PPS brings to your door a constant flow of news and educational information you need to make wise health decisions.
Our Medical Advisors are among the best in the world. Our Contributing Editors spearhead the global news-gathering efforts of the PPS to monitor over 100 reliable sources of medical news and information to guarantee PPS members receive the fullest and most complete coverage of the constantly changing face of science worldwide. PPS articles are current, accurate, professional, and easy to read and understand.
The PPS website contains the largest collection of current information on these two rare diseases on the Internet.
Recovery,the Society's quarterly news magazine, brings all the latest news and information directly to your door. For news that's too hot to wait, the Society sends you a "FLASH!" email health alert bulletin.
And we cover more than just dermatology. Other specialties of vital interest to you include: pharmacology, psychology, endocrinology, dentistry, nutrition, employee rights, health insurance, social security benefits and much more.
The comfort of an online support community with state-of-the-art technology.
We call our online support group, The Village. There you will find the quality patient-to-patient information, advice and support you demand--but in a much easier, faster and safer to use format.
You don't have to download messages to your computer, we store them on ours. The messages are presorted and kept in a searchable archive. This means PPS members can find what they need to know, when they need to know it. Also, no outside stranger can never collect your name or email address without your expressed permission.
In addition to news, the PPS provides publications and background information to help you understand all the various aspects of your illness.
Our article archive of background articles and publications are brimming with expert information and advice to start you off in the right direction.
For those interested in doing their own research, we offer the PPS Link Library, a collection of over 300 links to websites on virtually any topic of interest to pemphigus and pemphigoid patients.
We provide on-site search engines, from PubMed, Scirus, and Google. If you are looking for answers, the PPS makes finding them much easier to find.
A medical glossary is also available, one that contains terms often used when discussing pemphigus and pemphigoid, plus we have a medical spell-checker for difficult terms.
We look out for the interests of our member-patients. The Society partnered with a number of advocacy organizations which further causes important to pemphigus and pemphigoid patients. By making these key alliances, our efforts on your behalf are enhanced.
And we have attractive T-shirts. Ordinarily attractive T-shirts are not very important, but our T-shirts are a symbol of the many vigorous outreach activities the PPS undertakes to help earn the funding necessary to expand our patient programs and services. The modest income from gift items, our Shopping Partners and the PPS Book Cellar, are added to other income streams to provide you with the services and programs you need. You work hard for your money, and so do we.
Any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization is dedicated to serve it's constituents.
It's only natural that you want to know how your donations are being spent so you can judge if the organization is efficient, frugal and straightforward.
The Pemphigus & Pemphigoid Society is eager to explain how we follow the procedures, practices and principles of the nonprofit industry in order to bring to our members the most benefits in the most cost-efficient manner possible. This is the only way a nonprofit, public benefit organization like the PPS can earn your trust and continued support.
We enthusiastically solicit your questions and suggestions because we can best serve you by listening carefully to what you say about your needs, now and in the future. We won't forget that we work for you!
And it's all for less than 10 cents a day.*
The Pemphigus & Pemphigoid Society furnishes you with the wide range of services and programs you need to make the best possible health decisions. No one else can offer you all this.
We ask you for a donation of just $36, 10 cents a day, to help cover the costs involved.
Please let us help speed you along the road to recovery. Join the PPS now.
*A donation is not necessary to join the PPS. If you need a free membership, just write "free" on the membership application.
