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Latest News from the ISSM - 19 September 2014 Member Login
Limited Time Only: ISSM Members May Publish in Sexual Medicine for $100!

For a limited time, ISSM members may publish in Sexual Medicine, the ISSM's open access journal, for $100.

This subsidy applies to the next 20 papers accepted for publication in Sexual Medicine authored by ISSM members. For eligible papers, ISSM members pay a special discounted rate of $100 (regularly $500).

This offer is available to ISSM members only. Please click here to submit your manuscript. More information about publishing in Sexual Medicine may be found here.

Further details about this program are available here.

Experts Discuss Penile Implant Litigation

About 58% of reviewed penile implant litigation cases were found in favor of the defendant, according to a recent Journal of Sexual Medicine study.

Experts from the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Wake Forest School of Medicine analyzed forty cases retrieved from the Westlaw legal database.

The average payments to plaintiffs were $831,050 for cases that went to trial and $335,500 for cases that were settled out of court.

Some cases involved surgeon errors, such as mistakes in implant sizing. In others, plaintiffs claimed that they were not aware of potential consequences of implants, such as penile shortening.

Forty-three percent of cases involving malleable implants were decided in the plaintiff's favor. This is in contrast to cases involving inflatable devices, all of which were found in favor of the defendant.

Please click here for more details on this review. 

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