Tag: community

Presenting the 2016 WEGO Health Activist Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2016 WEGO Health Activist Award winners! These passionate and motivated individuals are certainly creating change in the healthcare landscape! A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our #HAAwards celebration this week. The WEGO Health team had a blast 'hanging out' with you all week. We are so grateful to be part…

#HAAwards Celebration Schedule Of Events

Are you getting excited for the #HAAwards celebration?! Because we sure are! Our Patient Leader network is straight up awesome. Whether you’re cracking someone up, offering inspiration to keep fighting or offering support - you all have made an impact on another’s life. You all are creating change. And you all deserve to be celebrated!…

Best in Show: Community/Forum Finalists

Announcing the finalists for the 2016 Best in Show: Community/Forum Award..... Who has created an amazing online community or threaded forum that houses important conversations about health? Through either their own site or an open online space, they bring people together. Their leadership takes the form of active community management, engagement, and moderation. They've mastered…

And the votes are in…

The WEGO Health team is overwhelmed by all the awesome nominees this year. Everyone, we mean EVERYONE, should be proud of their work. Each of you are taking healthcare by storm and truly creating change. Everyone’s voice, whether you have 5 followers or 5,000, is making an impact. Together our voices make up the online…

Help us Color The World Orange for CRPS/RSD Awareness on Nov. 7

Get your orange ready, the third-annual Color The World Orange is less than a week away! Color The World Orange, an annual event held the first Monday of November to spread awareness of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), also known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), is Nov. 7. We encourage everyone in the CRPS/RSD…

Today is Acromegaly Awareness Day!

With so many awareness months, do you have time for one whole awareness day?! November 1st, today. A rare, one-day opportunity for a rare disease…ACROMEGALY! Who-hoo!! Acromegaly is a GH (growth hormone) producing tumor. First, it is on the pituitary-gland which is basically back between your eyes. It is the control center for just about…