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Welcome to Inspire!
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.
How - Joining Inspire is completely free and usually takes less than a minute. Join now!
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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 ...
Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- 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 ...
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 ...
New feature - See what you've replied to
- By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
- 21 recommendations
- 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 ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- 19 recommendations
- Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
- 15 recommendations
- I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...
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 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 ...
My 'BWP' will never be forgotten
- By tkitts · Posted November 10, 2008
- 8 recommendations
- I am sending a quick post becaouse I have not yet said how much the LCA site gave Pat Hope and others. I remember finding this site while she was in the hospital Jan. 07 and telling her that she should ...
New feature - additional reply notifications
- By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
- 8 recommendations
- 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 ...
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 ...
10 Wonderful (well for the most) Years
- By jazzbo · Posted August 25, 2009
- 6 recommendations
- Hi everyone, As of the 8/23/09 it has been 10 yrs of survivor ship for me. I was diagnosed 8/23/99. It seems as though it was a lifetime ago. I just replied to LTCS (Connie) about her scare recently ...
A Very Open Letter from an Oncologist
- By gpawelski · Posted August 8, 2009
- 6 recommendations
- A Medical Director at California Cancer Care, an oncology practice in Northern California wrote a candid letter to the Health Beat blog by Maggie Mahar. He is a member of The Century Foundation's Working ...
Something easy you can do for lung cancer!
- By stephanie410 · Posted January 12, 2009
- 6 recommendations
- From the Change.gov website, for President-Elect Obama, they have a "briefing book." It is described below... "Share your ideas on any issue facing the new administration, then rate or comment on other ...
11 Year Survivor!!!! NSCLC 3-B to 4!!!
- By suzyqk · Posted November 9, 2008
- 6 recommendations
- Hi! Just wanted to let you all know that there is HOPE!! I am an 11-year survivor! It does happen! As someone posted, most of us are out living our lives--and to the fullest. Given another chance does ...
Article: A screening that would save lives
- By LC_News · Posted April 7, 2008
- 6 recommendations
- A screening that would save lives By Beverly Beckham, Boston Globe Columnist | April 6, 2008 She is angry, but who can blame her? Her sister - "my beloved sister" - died of lung cancer, writes a reader ...