Social Listening to Understand the Unmet Needs of Patients

Social Listening to Understand the Unmet Needs of Patients By Marina Shayevich and Sara Ray Across healthcare, patients lament the imperfection of pharmaceutical treatment. Although grateful to have life saving and life improving medications, patients are often met with frustration at the limitations of their medications. Nowhere is that more evident than in rare diseases, where the rarity of the illness may lead to a scarcity of available, approved pharmaceutical treatment options. Many patients are left to turn to off-label medication use in the effort to get the best solution possible. Even then, these treatments do not [...]

Brain Tumors-What patients and their caregivers need-An Inspire Insights: Engage Case Study

Brain Tumors - What patients and caregivers need - An Inspire Insights: Engage Case Study By Monica St. Claire Almost 80,000 adults will be diagnosed with brain or spinal cord tumors in the US this year.1 Seven hundred thousand are living with brain tumors in the US today.1 Although extensive media coverage of political figures, Joseph “Beau” Biden and Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy, as well as Senator John McCain’s July 2017 diagnosis, has placed a spotlight on an extremely aggressive and rare brain cancer, glioblastoma, there are actually over 120 different types of brain or spinal cord [...]

Video Vignettes: Through Their Own Eyes: Heart Bypass Surgery

Video Vignettes: Through Their Own Eyes: Heart Bypass Surgery Our hearts start to beat at around a month and a half into pregnancy.1 We may take its constancy for granted until something goes wrong. Worldwide, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death with 17.7 million deaths each year.2 Coronary artery disease (CAD), the most common heart disease in the US, is caused by a buildup of plaque in the arteries supplying blood to the heart. These arteries narrow and blood flow to the muscle of the heart is blocked. Heart or chest pain, called angina, and [...]