Medically reviewed by Matthew Wosnitzer, MD Key Takeaways Circumcision can make cleaning the penis easier and reduce certain ...

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

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently criticized infant circumcision, the practice of removing a baby's foreskin after birth. Yang stated his support for intactivism, a portmanteau of ...

U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence supports having the procedure done and health insurers should pay for it.

Circumcision—the removal of the foreskin covering the tip of the penis—is not only one of the oldest surgical procedures in the world, but also one of the most common. Researchers believe this ...

A Forward analysis of government data shows that 87% of the baby boys born in West Virginia were circumcised in 2009. Two thousand miles west, in Nevada, the procedure was performed on only 12% of ...

Heather Hironimus has fought to avoid circumcising her 4-year-old son. — -- Heather Hironimus does not want her son to be circumcised -- and she's been jailed for refusing to cooperate with a ...

(CBS News) The New York District Attorney's office is reportedly investigating the death of a 2-week-old boy who underwent metzizah b'peh, a controversial Orthodox Jewish ritual that involves orally ...

Two infants have died and 13 cases reported since 2000, despite health law. April 5, 2013— -- Two infants in the last three months in New York City's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community have been ...

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 ...

Sokoto State first lady, Dr Fatima Ahmed Aliyu, has paid a working visit to NOMA Hospital to inspect the ongoing statewide ...