These terms say what this site is for, what may be done with what is published here and where responsibility stops. They apply to every page on the domain, in English and in Italian alike.
What this site is
The Urologist was a peer reviewed, open access journal published by AURO.it, the Italian association of urologists, between 2012 and 2015, registered under ISSN 2279-9419. The journal is closed: the submission desk no longer accepts manuscripts, reader accounts are gone and the archive stands as it was published. Alongside it the same domain carries two Italian sections written now, not archived — the farmacopea and the condition pages — whose method and sources are declared on how the sheets are written.
Information, not medical advice
Everything published here is reference material. It does not establish a doctor-patient relationship, it is not a diagnosis, it is not a prescription and it cannot take account of the one thing that decides a treatment: the person in front of the clinician. The Italian pages are written by the editorial desk and are not signed by a physician, which is stated on every one of them.
A reader who acts on these pages instead of consulting a doctor does so on their own responsibility. In an emergency the number to call in Italy is 112. The fuller list of situations that need a doctor the same day is on the Italian page of medical warnings.
No medicines are sold here
This site does not sell, dispense, ship or broker medicines, and it takes no orders. Prices quoted in the drug sheets are reference figures collected from the Italian market and are indicative: the valid price is the one shown at the pharmacy counter. Medicines subject to prescription are obtained in a pharmacy on presentation of the prescription, and a site that offers to supply them without one is operating outside Italian law — the test for an authorised online pharmacy is set out on its own page.
Copyright and reuse
Articles in the journal archive belong to their authors and carry a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence: they may be copied, redistributed and adapted, including commercially, provided the author, the title, the issue and the licence are credited. Self-archiving of the accepted version in an institutional or subject repository is permitted without embargo.
The editorial pages written for this site — the pharmacopoeia, the condition pages and the pages about the journal — are the property of the publisher. Quotation with a visible link to the page quoted is welcome; wholesale republication, and any reuse that presents the material as someone else's or as clinical guidance, is not.
Trade names of medicines belong to the companies that hold them and are used here to identify the product, which implies no connection with the manufacturer and no endorsement in either direction.
Accuracy, revision and corrections
Dosages, contraindications, supply rules and reimbursement classes are taken from the summaries of product characteristics filed with AIFA, from European Medicines Agency documentation and from the guidelines of the European Association of Urology, and every sheet carries the date it was last checked against them. Official documents change, and between two revisions a page can fall behind the current version: the prescribing information in the box is what governs.
A reader who finds a figure that no longer matches the official document is asked to write from the contact page, naming the page and the passage. Corrections of substance are applied and the revision date is moved.
Links to other sites
Links point to the regulators, learned societies and registers used as sources. The publisher has no control over what those sites publish and answers only for its own pages.
Liability
The material is provided as it stands. The publisher answers for intent and gross negligence as Italian law requires, and does not accept liability for decisions taken on the basis of these pages without a clinician, for interruptions of service or for the content of sites reached by a link. Nothing here limits the rights that Italian or European law grants a consumer and that cannot be waived by agreement.
Applicable law
Italian law applies to these terms and to the use of the site. The mandatory protections available to a consumer in the country where they live are unaffected.
Changes
These terms apply from 23 October 2026 and replace any earlier version. Material changes are published on this page with a new date. How personal data is handled is a separate matter, set out under privacy and cookies.