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What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
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The Inspire health and wellness blog
Inspire to Co-Sponsor BIO Healthcare Reform Meeting
- By Brian · Posted June 15, 2009
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- Inspire is proud to join the movement to pass comprehensive healthcare reform legislation. On Wednesday, June 17, we will be co-sponsoring an 'emergency' meeting titled 'The Future of Advocacy and Improved ...
The link between excess weight and osteoarthritis
- By Brian · Posted April 16, 2009
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- If you're a member of this community, you already know how connecting with others who know what you're going through can give you the support, encouragement, and inspiration you need to achieve your goals ...
New Inspire groups
- By Brian · Posted March 10, 2009
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- We've recently launched four new groups in Inspire. Please take a moment to take a look, and join a group or invite a friend or family member who might be interested. United Cerebral Palsy www.inspire.com/groups/my-child-without ...
New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge
- By Brian · Posted December 4, 2008
- 25 replies
- I am pleased to announce that today we added a new group to Inspire: The National Body Challenge. nationalbodychallenge We created this group in partnership with Discovery Health. The group focuses on ...
A new Inspire partner: Resolve, the National Infertility Association
- By Brian · Posted November 14, 2008
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- resolve We recently launched two new groups in partnership with Resolve, the National Infertility Association and created two new Inspire groups: Finding a Resolution for Infertility http://www.inspire.com/groups/finding-a ...
Inspire at Health 2.0 Conference 2008
- By Brian · Posted November 14, 2008
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- speakerbadgehealth20 Inspire was a presenter at this year's Health 2.0 conference (www.health2con.com) in San Francisco. It was an exciting event, with 1,000 attendees, twice the number last year. There ...
Dr. Ted Eytan
- By Brian · Posted October 20, 2008
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- Last week, I took a long walk with my favorite patient empowerment advocate, Dr. Ted Eytan (www.tedeytan.com). We talked about a wide range of topics, many of which are directly related to the work we ...
TV coverage of the Advanced Breast Cancer Support Community
- By Brian · Posted October 9, 2008
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- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and our Advanced Breast Cancer Support Community (www.inspire.com/groups/advanced-breast- cancer) has been covered on live national television! the first clip ...
Privacy and control
- By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
- 48 replies
- At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...
Social Media and Health Symposium
- By Brian · Posted July 3, 2008
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- We recently held an all-day Social Media and Health symposium in collaboration with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (www.bio.org) at BIO's office in Washington, D.C. Huge thanks to Tricia, Julia ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
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- I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
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- Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...
Why are we here?
- By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
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- When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...
Welcome!
- By Brian · Posted March 13, 2008
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- I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...
We're hiring!
- By Brian · Posted November 18, 2007
- 1 reply
- As you know, ClinicaHealth is the company 'behind the scenes' that keeps this community up-and-running. We write the software, host the site, and provide services and support. We are growing, and as we ...
Be Nice
- By Brian · Posted August 4, 2007
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- Community Rule #2 is so simple that it almost sounds trite. But 'Be Nice' is really the most concise way to sum up one of the things that makes this community so important. 'Be Nice' does not mean don't ...
What would YOU like to know?
- By Brian · Posted June 25, 2007
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- By now you have probably used the 'Surveys' feature. We'd like to post some new survey questions, and would like to hear your ideas. Please drop me a line or respond to this blog entry, and let me know ...
How can we make this better?
- By Brian · Posted June 8, 2007
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- We have been working on updates to the community and need your feedback. Many of you have shared helpful comments, and we'd like as much input from you as possible. How can we make this better? Thank ...
Together We're Better
- By Brian · Posted May 30, 2007
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- This community was created in order for all of us to provide one another practical and emotional support. Of course, it is not a substitute for authoritative medical information or a doctor-patient relationship ...
How to share a photo
- By Brian · Posted May 21, 2007
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- As you've seen, many Members choose to share a photo. This photo could be one of you, or family members, or anything else you'd like. If you haven't done so yet and would like to, it's easy to add a photo ...