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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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Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- Journal · 33 recommendations
- 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 ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- 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
- 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!
- 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!
- 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 ...
The New Face of Cancer
- By DragonflyDream · Posted August 5, 2008
- Journal · 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 ...
getting ready
- By yesshecan · Posted August 29, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Driving through misting splatters of rain, then realize I'm all hunched up and tilted forward. Defensive posture. Tight. Take a few deep breathes and uncoil. Trying for lighter, softer strength. Strength ...
Lyso-What?
- By StephLynStill · Posted March 9, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Just in case you haven't seen it. ;) xoxo s **ps - that's my kiddo ...
Cherry Red Spot is a telltale sign...
- By StephLynStill · Posted March 4, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Today I returned a telephone call to a woman who's cousin's 7 month old son, Ben, has been displaying possible symptoms of a neurometabolic disease. You know, darting eyes, not rolling over, trunk weakness ...
It's just getting so overwhelming.
- By Pmorris · Posted October 9, 2008
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Being 18 and only 7 months in having membranous nephropathy, it is hard. All of the medications seem to have stop working now. My condition has gotten even worse than when I first started. So now I'm ...
letting go....
- By DragonflyDream · Posted September 3, 2008
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Finally at age 47 I let go of my desire/need for my mother's approval. I let my husband hear 27ish years of pent up hurt, disappointment, pure pain come streaming out and the next day I felt so much better ...
