InstantMe

Honoring Family Caregivers Everywhere

Is there a caregiver in your family?  For example, someone who looks out for an elderly parent or grandparent – or who cares for a child or spouse with a debilitating illness? November is National Family Caregivers Month, a time for recognizing the important role of family caregivers in our society as well as the

Honoring Family Caregivers Everywhere Read More »

Spotlighted Blogger: Interview with Lissa of “Psoriasis Girl’s Point of View”

Want to connect with and learn from psoriasis patients like you? Join PatientsLikeMe Now! (It’s free) Welcome to the sixth installment of our “Spotlighted Blogger” series.  So far, we’ve interviewed patient bloggers living with gastroparesis, type I diabetes, bipolar I disorder, Parkinson’s disease and ALS, and today we introduce Lissa, a PatientsLikeMe member who has lived

Spotlighted Blogger: Interview with Lissa of “Psoriasis Girl’s Point of View” Read More »

Spotlighted Blogger: ALS Patient Rachael of “Notes to Self”

Welcome to the third installment of our new blog series featuring patient bloggers. Last week, we introduced you to Parkinson’s blogger Steve, and today, we’d like you to meet Rachael, a three-star member who has been a part of PatientsLikeMe’s flagship ALS community since the very beginning. In fact, she joined PatientsLikeMe in May 2006,

Spotlighted Blogger: ALS Patient Rachael of “Notes to Self” Read More »

How to Thrive: Takeaways from TEDx Cambridge

Patient Experience Manager Kate Brigham and I attended TEDx Cambridge last week, a one-day event full of thought-provoking and inspirational talks about Ideas Worth Spreading (TED’s mission). The participants didn’t want to just survive, they wanted to Thrive, which was this year’s theme. Speakers, including our President and Co-Founder Ben Heywood, enlightened the crowd with

How to Thrive: Takeaways from TEDx Cambridge Read More »

Share and Compare: What Have You Learned with InstantMe?

How are you feeling today – honestly? In December, PatientsLikeMe launched a new feature called InstantMe. It’s designed to allow you to chart how you are feeling day in and day out. Is today a bad day? Record it on InstantMe (found on your profile), and if you’d like, add a note explaining what’s going

Share and Compare: What Have You Learned with InstantMe? Read More »

Share and Compare: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part II – R&D)

The PatientsLikeMe research and development (R&D) team is excited about what we can all share and learn in 2011.  Here’s a look back at some of what patients like you shared with us, and what we then shared with the world, in 2010. The R&D team published and presented some unprecedented insights based on what

Share and Compare: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part II – R&D) Read More »

One for All: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part 1)

Thanks everyone for a great 2010.  As we kick off the New Year, PatientsLikeMe would like to take a quick look back at the road we’ve traveled together this year.  We think of all these improvements as laying the groundwork for even more exciting changes to come in 2011. At the start of 2010, we

One for All: A PatientsLikeMe Year in Review (Part 1) Read More »

Sharing and Learning with PatientsLikeMe

In December community newsletters (launched earlier this week), we asked some of our members to think about what they’ve shared and compared in 2010.  Below are highlighted answers from each interviewee across all nine community newsletters.  Thank you for your contributions. We also want to thank all of you who have contributed to the 90

Sharing and Learning with PatientsLikeMe Read More »

Scroll to Top