Male circumcision, the total or partial removal of the foreskin, has been practiced since time immemorial among many communities. Today, statistics show that for every one circumcised male, five ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday announced its first major shift on circumcision in more than a decade, concluding that the health benefits of the procedure clearly outweigh any risks.

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 ...

Shockingly, most male infants in the USA still undergo circumcision. Last year the American Academy of Pediatrics put out a report that infant circumcision is beneficial to infant boys for several ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A widely criticized German court verdict on religious circumcision this week aims only to delay the act, not ban it, and is not directed against any faith, a jurist with a leading ...

Norway will not introduce a ban on the non-medical circumcision of boys, the country’s foreign minister said. “The position of the government has been and will remain clear: It will not propose a ban ...