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
Category: Patient Experiences
Mental Illness Awareness Week: Stigmas, Stereotypes and Sharing
On Tuesday, we recognized Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 2-8) by sharing some of our mental health members’ vivid descriptions of what depression feels like. Today, we’ve taken a look at what else our members are sharing – or not sharing – about more than a dozen mental health conditions at PatientsLikeMe. On the site,… Continue reading Mental Illness Awareness Week: Stigmas, Stereotypes and Sharing
What We Took Away from e-Patient Connections
Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, provided the perfect backdrop for e-Patient Connections 2011, a two day summit about reaching and engaging both patients and their caregivers in the digital age. Right away conference organizers set the tone that the patient voice should be our focus by introducing respected e-patient bloggers and advocates, such as… Continue reading What We Took Away from e-Patient Connections
Be of Good Heart Today
Today, September 29th, is World Heart Day. Sponsored by the World Heart Federation, this annual event was started in 2000 to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke, the world’s leading cause of death with more than 17.1 million lives lost each year. All around the globe, activities such as talks, screenings, walks, concerts and… Continue reading Be of Good Heart Today
How Privacy Impacts Personalized Medicine
“We are standing on the edge of a new information age, and this new information age is going to clash with our existing understanding of concepts such as privacy and how we think about healthcare data and what should be done with it.” – Jamie Heywood PatientsLikeMe Chairman Jamie Heywood recently traveled to Zurich, Switzerland,… Continue reading How Privacy Impacts Personalized Medicine
PatientsLikeMeOnCall: Monitoring Health Hazards with Modern Tools
Welcome to the fifth installment of our latest PatientsLikeMeOnCall podcast series, entitled “It’s Friday – Let’s Journal Club.” This week’s guest is Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Deputy Director of the Division of Notifiable Diseases and Healthcare Information at the CDC. He came by PatientsLikeMe headquarters recently to discuss the BioSense project, an initiative launched following 9/11… Continue reading PatientsLikeMeOnCall: Monitoring Health Hazards with Modern Tools
Our Pledge to You, the Patient
“We founded PatientsLikeMe on the concept that sharing health data could lead to a more empowered patient and better overall healthcare system. It’s an exciting and giant step forward for us as an industry as we unite around making health data more accessible to those that matter most – the patients.” – Ben Heywood, PatientsLikeMe… Continue reading Our Pledge to You, the Patient
“Go Back for the Future” of Parkinson’s Research
Haven’t heard of the Nike MAG shoe? Perhaps that’s because it’s only been worn by one person – the indelible Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox). Yet today, this rarest of Nike Footwear will become a reality for a lucky few. 1,500 pairs of “the most famous shoe never made” are being auctioned off on Ebay… Continue reading “Go Back for the Future” of Parkinson’s Research
September Is Recovery Month
Every September, the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) observes Recovery Month. The goal is to promote the societal benefits of treatment for substance use and mental disorders, celebrate people in recovery, recognize treatment providers and spread the message that recovery is possible. As the SAMHSA slogan says, “Prevention works, treatment is effective… Continue reading September Is Recovery Month