Genetic testing: What patients and caregivers understand and value
Genetic testing: What patients and caregivers understand and value There’s been an explosion of information about genes, genetics and genomics since completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003. Stories [...]
Are You Listening to Patients? Patient Preferences and Clinical Trial Design
Are You Listening to Patients? Patient Preferences and Clinical Trial Design By Kathleen Hoffman, PhD, MSPH Last fall, over 1500 Inspire members living with sarcoidosis, scleroderma, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, [...]
5 Benefits of Patient Focused Drug Development Sponsors Need to Know
The Patient Is Speaking: 5 Benefits of Patient Focused Drug Development Sponsors and CROs Need to Know By Sara Ray, MA Since the 2012 FDASIA reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee [...]
A Hopeful Mindset: Patient Insights on Clinical Trials Webinar
A Hopeful Mindset: Patient Insights on Clinical Trials Webinar By Kathleen Hoffman, PhD, MSPH In November 2018, Inspire sent a clinical trial perceptions research survey to caregiver and patient members with the [...]
Wearable Devices Revolutionize Clinical Trials… But when?
Wearable Devices Revolutionize Clinical Trials...But when? By Richard Tsai Here is the vision: Wearable devices open the floodgates to clinical trial participation. Patient-centric and portable, they’ll free the participants from multiple visits [...]
Redefining Life as a Patient and Caregiver : Experts by Experience 2018
Redefining Life as a Patient and Caregiver : Experts by Experience 2018 Parenting and caring for a child with a medical condition challenges Erin Moriarty Wade. She writes, “I know that [...]
Hacking clinical trials: Two awareness and protocol strategies invented by patients and caregivers that work
Hacking clinical trials: Two awareness and protocol strategies invented by patients and caregivers that work By Kathleen Hoffman, PhD Patients with life-threatening diseases aren’t waiting for someone to make participating in clinical [...]
Why peer-to-peer online patient communities are important to patients, caregivers and pharma
Why peer-to-peer online patient communities are important to patients, caregivers and pharma By Kathleen Hoffman, PhD What do patients and caregivers say about online patient communities? Inspire posts, podcasts, and patient advocates [...]
1.6 Million People Accelerate Medical Progress
1.6 Million People Accelerate Medical Progress When Brian Loew founded Inspire in 2005, he never dreamed of its impact on members, on himself and on the people who worked with him. “When [...]
Motivating change through online patient sharing
Motivating change through online patient sharing By Kathleen Hoffman, PhD MSPH Humans evolved as storytellers. Experiences of the weather, nature, life, and the world have been explained through legends and myths. Sharing [...]