The World Meeting on Sexual Medicine is just around the corner!  We hope you'll join us in Chicago the week of August 26-30 to meet your colleagues and stay up-to-date on the field of sexual medicine.

We're pleased to announce the following pre-meeting symposia to be held on Sunday, August 26:

Surgery Symposium - Video Course

Mental Health Professional Symposium - Sex Therapy; Past, Present, and Future

ISSWSH Symposium - Update in the Management and Treatment of Female Sexual Dysfunction

SLAMS Symposium (in Spanish/Portuguese) - Sexual Medicine: Where are we in 2012?

Chinese Symposium

Non-Physician Practitioners Symposium

For more information about the meeting, including registration and hotel information, please click here.

Men who have hyperthyroidism - an overactive thyroid - are more likely to have erectile dysfunction than those with normal thyroid function, according to European researchers.

In fact, up to 60% of men with hyperthyroidism may have erectile difficulties.

Click here to learn more about the study results and the authors' conclusions.

We've added a new question and answer about erectile dysfunction to our Q & A database:

Is there a connection between an overactive thyroid gland and erectile dysfunction (ED)?

What questions do your patients ask?  Feel free to submit them at QandA@issm.info.