Rare Disease Education:  Myasthenia Gravis

Editor: Kelsey LaFayette, DNP, RN, FNP-C

The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed in 1992, by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3.

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