The IUGA Terminology and Standardization and ICS Standardisation Steering Committees are pleased to announce that a ‘Joint report on the terminology for female anorectal dysfunction’ is now available for early view in both the International Urogynecology Journal and the Neurourology & Urodynamics Journal.

IUGA members: in case you missed it, the latest version of the newsletter is now available online. Catch up on what you missed at the 2016 annual meeting, read a special feature on female genital mutilation and hear from two IUGA experts about the role for autologous fascial sling and burch colposuspension in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence.

We need your help! The Publications Committee is seeking tough clinical cases to publish in a “Stump the Experts” special feature in the next newsletter. If you have a case you wish to submit, please send it to amy@iuga.org by November 3rd. Cases should be 300 words or less. Click here or here to see sample cases.

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