August 2014

Results! PatientsLikeMe diabetes members share about challenges and concerns

Earlier this year, more than 450 PatientsLikeMe members from the type 1 and type 2 diabetes communities took part in a new survey from our partners at Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s Institute of Health Research. (Thank you all for adding your voices!) Members shared about everything from the day-to-day challenges of living with diabetes to the

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Seeing [MS]: The invisible symptoms – pain

“I’m burnt alive every day.” That’s how Stephen Papadopoulos, an Australian living with multiple sclerosis (MS), describes the level of pain he experiences on a daily basis. Pain is the second of nine symptoms portrayed in the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Australia’s (MSA) Seeing [MS] awareness campaign, and Stephen details his experience in the video

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“This is a very serious issue” – PatientsLikeMe member Jess shares about her PTSD

Talking about past trauma isn’t easy – so we want to say thank you to Jess right off the bat. She’s a PatientsLikeMe member who suffered a TBI, and she recently talked with us about her experiences. Jess walked us through her accident and her diagnosis and went on to explain that even though you

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“MS doesn’t define anyone” – PatientsLikeMe member Anna shares about her journey with MS

We’ve had the pleasure of featuring many PatientsLikeMe members on the blog, but never one with a nickname quite like this. Anna is living with MS and we caught up with her to talk about coping, finding support, her motorized scooter and where the name “Mad Anna” comes from. Read below to see what life

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PatientsLikeMe and Actelion to develop new patient-reported measure for mycosis fungoides-type cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (MF-CTCL)

Patients To Share Their Experiences, Help Researchers Better Characterize Disease And Develop Treatment Strategies  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—August 5, 2014—PatientsLikeMe and Actelion Ltd. (SIX: ATLN) are partnering in a research initiative to create a new patient-reported outcomes tool for the rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma called MF-CTCL. The collaboration will leverage PatientsLikeMe’s Open Research Exchange (ORE), an

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