A coroner has raised concerns over circumcisions being carried out 'without any prior training' after a six-month-old boy died days after undergoing a procedure. Mohamed Abdisamad underwent a ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of baby boys getting circumcised in hospitals has dropped slightly in the past decade, health experts said on Thursday. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

The benefits of male circumcision outweigh the risks, according a long awaited draft of federal guidelines from U.S. health officials released on Tuesday, which indicate that scientific evidence ...

A six month old baby boy died from an infection a week after undergoing a circumcision. Mohamed Adbidsamed began showing symptoms he was unwell around three to four days following the procedure on ...

Male circumcision is considered the oldest, most frequently performed surgery in the world, yet it remains controversial. According to Dr. Greg Marchand, an ob-gyn at the Marchand Institute for ...

The circumcision rate for male babies is dropping in the United States, new research shows. According to research published by Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public ...

Circumcision not only protects against HIV in heterosexual men, but it also helps prevent two other sexually transmitted infections, a large new study found. Circumcised males reduced their risk of ...

The U.S. is in the midst of a five-year, $15 billion commitment to fight AIDS in developing countries. Despite that support, and billions of dollars from other sources, the AIDS pandemic continues to ...

South African boys from a rural area are briefed by an health worker from Doctors Without Borders before undergoing medical circumcision as a form of HIV prevention. The U.S. has supported male ...

Background One-third of the world's men are circumcised, but little is known about possible sexual consequences of male circumcision. In Denmark (~5% circumcised), we examined associations of male ...