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Test your EAU Guidelines knowledge and earn CME credits!
The European School of Urology (ESU) offers you 16 free e-courses dedicated to the EAU Guidelines. Every year, when the new edition of the EAU Guidelines is released, renowned experts meticulously select vital points in the new Guidelines and...
EAU History Office translates and publishes newly discovered Vesalius consilium
The latest volume of De Historia Urologiae Europaeae has a world first: an annotated translation of a recently discovered consilium by 16th-century anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564). Vesalius, known for his De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) anatomical study...
Despite high prevalence, urinary incontinence is still very much a taboo
Arnhem (The Netherlands), 20 September 2021. Although urinary incontinence (UI) is a very common issue affecting 10% to 20% of people across Europe1, it is still very much a taboo. This is revealed by a new survey2 commissioned by...
“When we facilitate collaboration between different countries, we will gain much more knowledge”
Profile: Prof. Jens Sønksen succeeds Prof. Manfred Wirth as EAU treasurer Prof. Jens Sønksen (DK) has a long history at the EAU. A member since 1996, he was part of the Scientific Congress Office from 2012 to 2017 and...
“We cannot talk to patients unless we speak their language”
Profile: Prof. Eamonn Rogers, the first chair of the newly formed EAU Patient Office Back in 2012, EAU Patient Information (EAU PI) was established to better involve patients and their families in the EAU’s mission of raising the...
Urology Week 2021: shining the spotlight on incontinence
Every September, the EAU hosts Urology Week, an international campaign for increasing awareness of urological conditions and treatment. This year, Urology Week (20-24 September 2021) will focus its attention on incontinence. Based on the latest information, about 20% of...
In memoriam: Prof. Dr. Louis Denis (1933-2021)
Prof. Dr. Lodewijk (Louis) Jan Denis, one of urology’s trailblazers and freethinkers, passed away peacefully on July 28, 2021. He was an inspirational urologist, a loyal lieutenant colonel of the Belgium army, and one of the founders of Europa...
Letter to European politicians urges them to set clear targets on prostate cancer
© European Union, – Source: European Parliament On Thursday 15 July, Véronique Trillet-Lenoir (FR), lead rapporteur for the European Parliament’s Beating Cancer Committee, presented her draft report on the European Commission’s Beating Cancer Plan to the other members...
Sign up for the EAU – SUO Exchange Programme in the USA
Broaden your experience, enrich your knowledge, and get to know peers from halfway across the world. Join the exchange programme of the European Association of Urology (EAU) and the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) by sending your application now....
Wrap-up: Read our coverage of EAU21 as it happened
On 8-12 July, the EAU hosted its 36th Annual EAU Congress, the Virtual EAU21. Over 6000 delegates from all around the world joined the five-day online programme. If you’re interested in our “as it happened” live coverage of the congress,...