Some pastors offer circumcision ceremonies as an alternative to older practices involving ancestor worship, misogyny, and ...

In her testimony, Mariama Njie told the court she was circumcised as a child, a tradition passed down through her family, ...

Male circumcision should be recognized as an additional important step in curbing heterosexually acquired HIV in men after trials showed that the procedure cut the risk of infection by up to 60 per ...

In my daily work as a pediatric surgeon, parents often ask me what I would do if the patient in clinic was my child. To be fair, most of the situations that trigger such inquiries involve serious ...

Circumcision is surgery to remove a male’s foreskin. A male may undergo this procedure for religious, social, medical, or cultural reasons. It may reduce the risk of some infections. The Centers for ...

Without social pressure, most people give little thought to male circumcision. This simple surgical procedure removes the foreskin, a hood of skin covering the head of the resting (flaccid) penis. But ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Circumcision is one of Judaism's most important laws and for generations of faithful it has symbolized a biblical covenant with God. But in Israel, more and more Jewish parents ...

Two studies from 2013 and 2015 found some association between circumcision and autism, but both have significant limitations, small sample sizes and methodology issues. Neither showed that ...

Circumcision is a surgical operation to remove the foreskin of the penis. An adult may decide to undergo this procedure for religious, cosmetic, medical, or cultural reasons. Circumcision is fairly ...

A systematic review links male circumcision to significantly lower risk of Cervical Cancer and lesions in female partners.

NEAR MOUNT ELGON, Uganda (AP) — The dancers shook their hips to the beat of drummers who led the way, anticipating the start of mass circumcision among the Bamasaaba people of Uganda’s mountainous ...