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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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Inspire news and notes

Scheduled maintenance - Thursday evening

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted December 16, 2008
  • 12 replies
  • Hello everyone. We're going to be performing some maintenance on Thursday evening from 7 pm to 11 pm Eastern time. Inspire will be unavailable for part, but not all of that time. Thanks for your patience ...

Site maintenance - Wednesday December 3rd

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted December 2, 2008
  • 10 replies
  • Hello everyone. We'll be upgrading some bits of Inspire during the evening of Wednesday, December 3rd. As a result Inspire will be offline from roughly 7 pm to midnight Eastern time. Thanks so much for ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
  • 39 replies
  • Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 10, 2008
  • 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
  • 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
  • 19 replies
  • Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...

New feature - See what you've replied to

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
  • 26 replies
  • Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...

Not getting your daily e-mail updates? Read here!

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted March 18, 2008
  • 15 replies
  • Hi there. Many of you have written in to say that you are no longer receiving your daily updates via e-mail. Here are some tips for fixing the problem. 1. Click here, and make sure you are subscribed ...

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