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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
- Journal · 54 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
- Journal · 32 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
- Journal · 24 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 ...
New feature - See what you've replied to
- By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
- Journal · 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
- Journal · 18 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 ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 17 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: video!
- By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
- Journal · 14 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
- Journal · 12 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 ...
New feature - profile completeness gauge
- By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
- Journal · 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 ...
Changes that you have requested are on the way
- By Beth · Posted March 28, 2008
- Journal · 9 recommendations
- Hello everyone. We've been hard at work on many of the great suggestions that you've sent us. This week we've been cooking up some changes to the group home page, and hope to make them public very soon ...
New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge
- By Brian · Posted December 4, 2008
- Journal · 8 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 - additional reply notifications
- By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
- Journal · 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 ...
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 ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- Journal · 5 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 ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- Journal · 5 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 ...
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 ...
Bone Growth
- By HSB · Posted July 7, 2008
- Journal · 5 recommendations
- Does bone continue to grow while you're taking fosamax or any of the others? I've read that it is the process of bone breaking down that actually spurs the new growth ...
Reclast Research Info (aka Zoledronic Acid-Novartis)
- By windblown · Posted July 2, 2008
- Discussion in Osteoporosis medications · 5 recommendations
- Since so many of you have been asking about the Reclast, and Zometa infusions, I thought I would post the New England Journal of Medicine's article on Zoledronic Acid (Reclast), the once yearly infusion ...
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 ...
Reclast has ruined my health and my life
- By idah · Posted October 28, 2008
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- I took reclast in February 2008. My endocrinologist said it was the best drug on the market for the treatment of osteoporosis and it had few and begnine side effects. I had doubts but chose to believe ...
Participate in a short survey to raise awareness about an important osteoporosis issue
