Meet the Patient: Selena from ALCAP

Meet the Patient: Selena from ALCAP

ALCAP (Association pour la Lutte Contre L’Alcaptonurie) is our French sister society. Founded in 2006 by Serge Sireau, it represents over 70 AKU patients in France. Serge is pictured here with his son, AKU Society CEO Nick Sireau, at April’s International Patient...
Google Ad Grants

Google Ad Grants

Have you noticed the adverts which appear at the top of Google search result pages? They are created on a platform called Google AdWords. Companies pay millions each year so that their adverts are the first things people see when they use Google. Google for...
AmazonSmile

AmazonSmile

The AKU Society has signed up to AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is an affiliate marketing service for the online shopping service Amazon. Affiliate marketing is when a company gives some money to a third party for driving web traffic towards its website. In the case of...
RCN Congress 2018

RCN Congress 2018

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress is the biggest and most important event of the annual nursing calendar. More than 4,000 nurses meet there to learn, share and develop nursing practice and influence health policy debates. This year’s congress, in Northern...
AKU Society at ECRD Vienna

AKU Society at ECRD Vienna

A rare disease is defined by the European Union (EU) as affecting fewer than one in 2,000 people. Considered together, though, rare diseases are common. Between six and eight per cent of the EU population has one of the 7,000 known rare diseases – that’s...