Contributors: Josephine O'Brien

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Josephine O'Brien

Community Manager UK

Your favourite daily task
Reading and responding to members' comments in the discussions: I create real relationships with members that I try to help as best as I can.

Your motto in life
It's better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it!

How do you recharge your batteries?
In Ireland, when someone is sick, they are given a "hot 7Up", a heated soda (like Sprite). It's a little weird but it's very popular in Ireland!

Created: 27/01/2020 - Updated: 27/01/2020


This member's contributions to the Health Magazine

NASH diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

NASH diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Cancer diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Cancer diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

NHS - Get help with prescription costs

NHS - Get help with prescription costs

Which symptoms are the most distressing for patients?

Which symptoms are the most distressing for patients?

Lupus: therapeutic education or how to become involved in your disease

Lupus: therapeutic education or how to become involved in your disease

Meet Josephine, your Community Manager

Meet Josephine, your Community Manager

Rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Fibromyalgia diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Fibromyalgia diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

How to travel with a disability?

How to travel with a disability?

The founder of Carenity answers our questions

The founder of Carenity answers our questions

Chronic fatigue: patients' experiences and solutions

Chronic fatigue: patients' experiences and solutions

Allergies to pollen: how to protect against them?

Allergies to pollen: how to protect against them?

Photo Testimonial: Ulcerative colitis won't stop me from travelling

Photo Testimonial: Ulcerative colitis won't stop me from travelling

COPD diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

COPD diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Understanding epilepsy: what are the different types of seizures?

Understanding epilepsy: what are the different types of seizures?

5 ways to boost your mood

5 ways to boost your mood

Telling patients to 'fight' cancer puts them under pressure

Telling patients to 'fight' cancer puts them under pressure

Cancer cases climb but mortality rates decline

Cancer cases climb but mortality rates decline

Slow but sure' progress toward less toxic tools to fight cancer

Slow but sure' progress toward less toxic tools to fight cancer

Tailoring cancer treatment to genetic profile extends lives, study finds

Tailoring cancer treatment to genetic profile extends lives, study finds

Cancer: 'If exercise was a pill it would be prescribed to every patient'

Cancer: 'If exercise was a pill it would be prescribed to every patient'

Targeted 'click-to-release' chemotherapy gives good results in mice

Targeted 'click-to-release' chemotherapy gives good results in mice

Study finds widespread belief in “mythical” causes of cancer

Study finds widespread belief in “mythical” causes of cancer

COPD: "Yoga has improved my lung function!"

COPD: "Yoga has improved my lung function!"

Rapid cancer diagnosis centres to be introduced at 10 NHS hospitals

Rapid cancer diagnosis centres to be introduced at 10 NHS hospitals

5 ways research can help prevent cancer

5 ways research can help prevent cancer

Reclassifying cancers 'will improve treatment'

Reclassifying cancers 'will improve treatment'

The end of toxic chemo? Blocking vitamin B-2 may stop cancer

The end of toxic chemo? Blocking vitamin B-2 may stop cancer

One injection could kill cancer

One injection could kill cancer

Vaping may raise cancer and heart disease risk, study suggests

Vaping may raise cancer and heart disease risk, study suggests

Universal blood test for cancer: medical progress

Universal blood test for cancer: medical progress

What Carenity members think about COPD

What Carenity members think about COPD

Gut bacteria 'boost' cancer therapy

Gut bacteria 'boost' cancer therapy

A new invention to help surgeons during operations on cancer patients

A new invention to help surgeons during operations on cancer patients

Revolutionary cancer treatment gets approved by FDA

Revolutionary cancer treatment gets approved by FDA

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