A two-week-old baby was hospitalized at Wolfson after contracting herpes during a circumcision involving direct oral suction. A two-week-old baby was hospitalized at Wolfson Medical Center with a ...

The choice of whether to circumcise one’s son—a decision both aided and hindered by a deluge of readily available information on the Internet—is an increasingly fraught one for parents. A quick Google ...

In the same week in which a San Francisco judge struck from the city’s November 2011 ballot a controversial measure aiming to ban circumcision of any male under 18, two reputable media sources ...

Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin covering the tip (glans) of the penis. In most cases, doctors perform this procedure shortly after a child’s birth. People have circumcisions for ...

Circumcision is, by and large, one of the safest surgical procedures one can perform on a human. But complications do happen. Estimates of their frequency vary dramatically, from 0.01 percent of cases ...

Circumcision is a surgical procedure that removes the foreskin of the penis. Differences between a circumcised and an uncircumcised penis include appearance and hygiene practices. One 2016 study ...

A Kenyan nurse has revealed that circumcision costs KSh 650,000 in Canada, sparking debate on cultural differences and ...

To cut or not to cut. The choice loomed the moment New Yorkers Rob and Deanna Morea found out, three months into Deanna’s pregnancy, that their first child was going to be a boy. Both had grown up ...

Some studies suggest that circumcision might prevent penile cancer. However, this is unverified, and more research is needed. Penile cancer is rare in the United States. It typically only affects 1 in ...

From the time Debra Sherman and her husband, Mark Wilcox, learned through prenatal genetic tests that they were having a boy, they agonized over whether to circumcise their baby. "I didn't want the ...

Undergoing circumcision as an infant has delayed psychological complications. This is shown by an international study led by researchers from Aarhus University. Researchers have long disagreed about ...