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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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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
  • Journal · 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 ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
  • Journal · 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

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
  • Journal · 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

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted December 4, 2008
  • Journal · 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 ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
  • Journal · 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

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Journal · 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!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
  • Journal · 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!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
  • Journal · 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 ...

LATE TERM EFFECT HELP

KMele
  • By KMele · Posted October 21, 2009
  • Discussion in Emotional support for my child · 1 recommendation
  • We are celebrating my Son's 10th year out of treatment. He was diagnosed in June 1999 with Burkitt's lymphoma when he was 5 years old. He is a sophomore in high school now and physically doing great ...

Blue Mommy Van

JLH1
  • By JLH1 · Posted August 25, 2009
  • Journal · 1 recommendation
  • Hi friends. I wrote the following essay for our daughter's CarePage website (www.carepages.com key word AshleyHendrick), but decided to post it on this site as well. I am guessing there are many of you ...

the power of professional help

dleach
  • By dleach · Posted June 3, 2009
  • Journal · 1 recommendation
  • I think a great thing is to admit when you cannot do it alone. In this process while Mason was sick and throughout my life experiences I have been fortunate to use the resources of professionals to help ...

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