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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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Why are we here?
- By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
- 55 recommendations
- 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 from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- 25 recommendations
- Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- 23 recommendations
- Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...
Welcome!
- By Brian · Posted March 13, 2008
- 13 recommendations
- 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 ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- 12 recommendations
- We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- 10 recommendations
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge
- By Brian · Posted December 4, 2008
- 9 recommendations
- 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 ...
New feature - profile completeness gauge
- By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
- 9 recommendations
- Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- 7 recommendations
- Sometimes the most powerful message each of us can share is our personal story -- our own experience. With upcoming healthcare legislation pending, one way we can be advocates is to share these stories ...
Privacy and control
- By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
- 7 recommendations
- 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 ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- 5 recommendations
- Looking for a unique and extraordinary way to say "thank you" to your mom? In honor of Mother's Day, good friend of Inspire Dr. Gwenn (of http://www.PediatricsNow.com and http://www.DrGwennIsIn.com) will ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
- 4 recommendations
- Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...
"What can I do for you?"
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- 4 recommendations
- After my mastectomy, everyone asked the above question. I decided that to say "nothing" was not only a wrong answer but also deprived people of being blessed by helping to take care of me. So I decided ...
Vulnerability
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- 3 recommendations
- Living with a chronic illness has forced me to become vulnerable. I was a very capable woman, able to keep many balls in the air at the same time - go ahead and throw another one at me. Fibromyalgia eliminated ...
The New Face of Cancer
- By DragonflyDream · Posted August 5, 2008
- 3 recommendations
- Okay, since the other day when I was so bummed and upset about a comment made by someone who has no clue what it is to FIGHT everyday for one's life I decided that since I "looked so good" that I should ...
Life on this side of the bridge
- By LaGata · Posted May 22, 2008
- 3 recommendations
- Today I saw something very unfortunate happen to one of our members. An opinion was stated and the member was treated rudely. I tried to contact the member but she'd packed up her membership, screen name ...
Lifestyle causes cancer? No way!
- By LaGata · Posted October 1, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- As a friend and I were chatting today, she asked a question and I answered automatically. Then I wondered if I was right and went looking for answers. The question was how long has breast cancer been ...
"At least you didn't lose all your hair"
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- 2 recommendations
- People mean well. They really do! When chemotherapy made me look like a boy, it was just a wee bit troubling. When my husband first set his eyes on me after the inevitable haircut, the love in them set ...
The Other Side of the Moon
- By MariaKaminski · Posted August 10, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- I was out on my porch swing and it was silent. No traffic, no noise, just me and the fire flies acrossed the street in the park. I looked up and noticed it was a full moon. It was a cloudy sky so there ...
DNA Dilemma: Can our genes be patented for profit?
- By Dolphinlady · Posted August 7, 2009
- 1 recommendation
- New Lawsuit Challenges the Right to Patent Human Genes for Profit Five breast cancer patients, with the help of the ACLU, are heading to court to dispute a company's right to monopolize parts of the human ...
