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Five million

By Brian · New reply May 18, 2013
Journal · 205 replies
Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

A new Inspire report in collaboration with Stanford Medical School

By Brian · New reply May 5, 2013
Journal · 84 replies
As many of you know, Inspire has a professional collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine. Inspire members have written personal stories for the Stanford Scope column. I am pleased ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD

By John2 · New reply April 16, 2013
Journal · 16 replies
Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...

We're hiring!

By Walter · Posted January 22, 2013
Journal · 0 replies
Hello everyone, We have a position open with our engineering team at Inspire, and I'd like to share the job description with you in the event you know just the person we're looking for. We found our most ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Howard Luks, MD

By John2 · New reply April 15, 2012
Journal · 59 replies
Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

The Inspire Q&A--Inspire talks with Susan Grant

By John2 · New reply February 15, 2012
Journal · 31 replies
Dear readers, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of interviews with people making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. We are posting these interviews ...

Inspire is hiring!

By Walter · New reply January 20, 2012
Journal · 15 replies
Inspire is hiring, and we're wondering if you know someone who would be the perfect addition to our team. Hello everyone, I'm Walter, one of Inspire's founders and the head of our technical team. I'm ...

Following: A new Inspire feature

By Walter · New reply December 5, 2011
Journal · 111 replies
Hello everyone, I'm writing to let you know about a new Inspire feature that we launched last night, designed to help you keep track of conversations you're interested in. We call it "following" and here's ...

Patient-driven research

By Brian · Posted October 13, 2011
Journal · 0 replies
I'd like to share with you a new Inspire report, The SCAD Ladies Stand Up: Stories of Patient Empowerment, which chronicles patient-initiated research in our community. This amazing patient-driven effort ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Mithra Behnam Mojtahedi

By John2 · New reply July 30, 2011
Journal · 15 replies
Dear readers, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting these interviews in ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart

By John2 · New reply July 26, 2011
Journal · 35 replies
Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Kevin Pho, MD

By John2 · New reply July 19, 2011
Journal · 58 replies
Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

New feature -- Browse posts you've recommended

By Walter · New reply June 26, 2011
Journal · 38 replies
Hello everyone, We added a new feature today that we hope you find helpful. You can now browse the complete list of posts that you have recommended, here: Browse posts you've recommended What's a recommendation ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Bonnie Diraimondo

By John2 · New reply May 25, 2011
Journal · 16 replies
Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people we feel are making contributions to helping patients worldwide. We are posting ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with “RA Warrior” Kelly Young

By John2 · New reply May 10, 2011
Journal · 7 replies
Dear Inspire Community Members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the second in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to help patients worldwide. We are posting these ...

New feature - Change the background color

By Walter · New reply March 24, 2011
Journal · 36 replies
Hello everyone, Hope this finds you well. I'm writing to let you know about a new feature in Inspire -- an option to change the background color of our pages from white to another color of your choosing ...

New feature - Preference for reply sorting

By Walter · New reply March 13, 2011
Journal · 82 replies
Hello everyone, We heard from a number of you that you like to read replies to discussions and journal entries from newest to oldest, rather than oldest to newest, which is currently the default. Those ...

Guestbooks are now live!

By TeamInspire · New reply August 15, 2009
Journal · 6 replies
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 ...

Share your story via video!

By TeamInspire · New reply June 23, 2009
Journal · 28 replies
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 ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

By TeamInspire · New reply June 12, 2009
Journal · 32 replies
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 ...

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