Today is Rare Disease Day, an annual event that raises awareness about rare diseases at a national and global level.

As part of Nutra Pharma’s ongoing effort to help raise awareness about rare diseases, we would like to take the opportunity to share with you a couple important organizations that are making great strides in rare disease collaboration and outreach.

Over the past few years, we have continued to proudly support RareShare, an organization co-founded in 2008 by our Chief Marketing Officer, David Isserman. RareShare was created as a free online community designed to connect people affected by rare medical disorders, including those diagnosed with Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), a rare disease for which Nutra Pharma has continued to work towards developing a treatment. Today, RareShare hosts over 3,000 members worldwide and is continuing to expand and grow its membership base.

More recently, we joined The Global Genes Project as a corporate supporter. The Global Genes Project recently launched as part of a worldwide effort to increase awareness for the prevalence of rare diseases and help those affected by them. It is the hope of The Global Genes Project organizers and supporters that the rare disease community, as a whole, will view this initiative as an opportunity to build unity around this important cause.

It is important to remember that while individual rare diseases seem to impact only a small portion of the population, together they affect over 30 million people in the United States and Europe. For this reason, we hope that you will take a moment to review both RareShare and The Global Genes Project and share these links with others you know, so that those affected by rare diseases will know that hope and support exist and that they have not been forgotten.

Throughout the day, we continued to offer free samples of Cobroxin Topical Gel. This turned out to be a great opportunity to build our Cobroxin brand awareness, especially when several attendees made it a point to come back to the booth to share with us, first hand, how well Cobroxin worked to relieve their pain.

Below are several images from the conference, including photos taken at the Nutra Pharma presentation, a standing-room only event given by the Company’s Chairman and CEO, Rik J. Deitsch.