“The true strength of the American family finds its roots in an unwavering commitment to care for one another.” – President Barack Obama November is National Family Caregivers Month, “a time to thank, support, educate and empower family caregivers.” There are more than 65 million family caregivers in the US who day in and day… Continue reading Giving Caregivers the Recognition They Deserve
Category: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
It’s the Season for Seasonal Affective Disorder
Now that daylight savings time has ended, the days are shorter, and before you know it, it’s nightfall. Has this affected your mood? Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as seasonal depression, is a condition marked by a period of depression that occurs during the same season year after year. In most cases, that season… Continue reading It’s the Season for Seasonal Affective Disorder
What Patients Are Saying About Physical Therapy
Mobile. Active. Independent. How close are you or the patient in your life to those attributes? October is National Physical Therapy Month, which is designed the highlight the role of physical therapy (PT) in restoring and improving motion. According to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), the benefits can include enhanced quality of life as… Continue reading What Patients Are Saying About Physical Therapy
How’s Your HDL and LDL?
September is National Cholesterol Education Month, which means it’s a good time to find out your total cholesterol levels as well as your HDL (“good” cholesterol) and LDL (“bad” cholesterol) levels. Have you had them checked in the last five years? More than 102 million Americans have a total cholesterol level at or above 200… Continue reading How’s Your HDL and LDL?
PatientsLikeMe Calls All Patients With Any Condition to Join
Today, PatientsLikeMe announces its expansion in the following news release. ***** CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – April 11, 2011) – Today, PatientsLikeMe (www.patientslikeme.com) announces the expansion of its platform and invites patients with any condition to join. The five-year-old free online health data-sharing website was previously only available to patients with 22 chronic conditions (including ALS, Parkinson’s disease, HIV,… Continue reading PatientsLikeMe Calls All Patients With Any Condition to Join
Patient Choices: How Open Are You Now?
At PatientsLikeMe, we have a Privacy Policy that explains what we do with the health data that patients like you share. But as many of you know, we also have an Openness Philosophy, which outlines what we believe are the substantial benefits of being open versus private about your condition. Here’s an excerpt: “Currently, most… Continue reading Patient Choices: How Open Are You Now?
Patient Choices: The Shape of Sharing
In these days of Facebook and Twitter, the media is abuzz with news of “over sharing” of sensitive, personal or trivial information – everything from your current location to what you were up to over the weekend. Members on our site may choose to share some of this, but what about some of the less… Continue reading Patient Choices: The Shape of Sharing
The Social and Emotional Choices You Make Every Day as a Patient
As David Williams discussed in his blog on Monday, we all have to make choices. And for patients like you living with serious medical conditions, there are obvious treatment and career decisions that you have to make—finding the right doctor, deciding which treatment options to try and determining if it’s still possible for you to… Continue reading The Social and Emotional Choices You Make Every Day as a Patient
The Choices Patients Like You – and Like My Mother – Face
Patients like you with life-changing conditions have to make choices every day, just like anyone else. These choices, however, typically have more at stake than how to RSVP to a party or even whether to walk away from an “underwater” home. For patients like you, your lives may be at stake. I have watched my… Continue reading The Choices Patients Like You – and Like My Mother – Face
Treat us right: Comparing Cymbalta and Lyrica in the fibromyalgia community
At PatientsLikeMe, we strive to put the interests of you, the patient, first in everything we do. After all, you are the customers of the healthcare industry, and you deserve to have a say about the products and services created for you. Unfortunately, your needs and opinions often haven’t had the influence on the decision-making… Continue reading Treat us right: Comparing Cymbalta and Lyrica in the fibromyalgia community