Health Social Networking

Indian Patient Foundation is a health based social network of people sharing their disease experiences, treatment options, knowledge and giving support to other people suffering from similar health problems. Its a place to talk about how to live well with disease, ask questions, share information about what is working for you, get sympathy, exchange ideas, request and recommend the best doctors, support and friendship from other patients suffering from the same disease. You can also talk about what drugs, herbs, supplements and alternative methods work. By sharing your health experiences, you can help others and improve their quality of life. Indian Patient Foundation Support Groups help you to overcome the health problem by networking with people all around the world who have a similar health problem. Even volunteers, caregivers and medical professionals can join and throw a helpful advice and cheer up a fellow human being. Indian Patient Foundation is just a hub connecting people from all around the world to share their health experiences and seek help.

Our Mission : IPF provides a platform for its members to network and help each other to achieve a better health and a quality life. 

Advantages of joining a Support Group

•  Feeling less lonely, isolated or judged
•  Gaining a sense of empowerment and control
•  Improving your coping skills and sense of adjustment
•  Talking openly and honestly about your feelings
•  Reducing distress, depression or anxiety
•  Developing a clearer understanding of what to expect with your situation
•  Getting practical advice or information about treatment options
•  Comparing notes about resources, such as doctors and alternative options

 At Indian Patient Foundation you can

- Find & make friendship with people who have similar health problems
- Share your Health Experiences
- Know about the latest research regarding your disease and treatment options
- Get advice from people suffering from a similar health problem
- Join 800+ support groups
- Find people who have similar interests and hobbies
- Learn from others how they are coping up with your disease condition
- Give mental support to other people
- Family and Friends of the diseased can also join and know others experiences
- You can recommend doctors
- Latest news of the concerned disease is available in the respective group
- You can share your photos and videos with other members
- You can write your disease experiences
- You can join Indian Patient Foundation as a anonymous member and keep your identity private
- Share your story with others
- Join a Support Group and you can network with people all around the world who suffer from your health problem
- Make new friends and share your progress with the treatment options
- You can exchange private messages with other members
- You can get email updates of your activity on Indian Patient Foundation

Let the patient revolution begin.

By joining Indian Patient Foundation, you can write a new chapter in your Health Life. Join Now!

 

Google buying WebMD?

CNNMoney reports a rumor a that Google might acquire WebMD to boost its yet to launch Health Channel 'Google Health'. WebMD is an excellent online health care company.

Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV

IBN reports

Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.

Indrani and a team of scientists have developed an enzyme called Tre. Tre is a custom enzyme capable of detecting, recognising and destroying HIV, much like a pair of molecular scissors.

They must bring this to the masses as early as possible and that too at a affordable rate.

Health News

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Heart on Right Side

Situs inversus is a condition in which there is complete reversal of circulatory system and viscera. This condition goes undetected and is incidentally detected by chest radiograph. Medpagetoday has a special report on Situs Inversus.

Image from Wikipedia, under public domain.

Health Mela - Health News/Discussion

Health Mela is a user powered health news portal. On this social content voting site, all news is submitted by its users. Any members can submit health related content to HealthMela, and this will enable the content to be viewed by all. The content will be promoted or buried depending on how much it is liked by the community. The more votes the submission gets, the more popular it is. With enough votes, the piece of news will be showcased on the Front page of HealthMela.

You can join Health Mela and submit your health websites at http://healthmela.com/signUp.html

Doctor World

Its like a digg for Doctors. DoctorWorld.NET is a medical media democracy. It is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the DoctorWorld.NET community. It's a place where people submit, share, vote and promote medical stories and websites.

DoctorWorld.NET is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion (whether you know who they are or not), and where you can also find what's interesting from people whose opinion are important to you - whether they know who you are or not.

Everything on DoctorWorld.NET is submitted by DoctorWorld.NET users, and after they submit a story, website, etc. other people will read it and give it a thumb up or down. If that story receives enough positive votes, it is promoted to the front page.

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Your Genetic Health

Here comes a company which is helping people to get more information from their genes and get an insight into their ancestry, inherited traits etc., For non-biology students who want to know more about genes can check out the wikipedia.

23andMe is a privately held company developing new ways to help you make sense of your own genetic information.

Even though your body contains trillions of copies of your genome, you've likely never read any of it. Our goal is to connect you to the 23 paired volumes of your own genetic blueprint (plus your mitochondrial DNA), bringing you personal insight into ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits. By connecting you to others, we can also help put your genome into the larger context of human commonality and diversity.

Toward this goal, we are building on recent advances in DNA analysis technologies to enable broad, secure, and private access to trustworthy and accurate individual genetic information. Combined with educational and scientific resources with which to interpret and understand it, your genome will soon become personal in a whole new way.