Despite the 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement indicating that routine neonatal circumcision is not medically necessary, circumcision continues to be the most frequently ...

Male circumcision is the surgical removal of some or all of the foreskin (or prepuce) from the penis. The origins of circumcision are unknown, and probably predate written history, but the practice is ...

CHICAGO -- Advanced practice providers (APPs) performed office-based neonatal circumcisions with results comparable to those of physicians, according to two studies reported here. A circumcision ...

Researchers analyzed a national database of US children’s hospital stays from 2012 to 2022. The analysis included all discharges of baby boys aged 0-28 days and excluded babies with bleeding disorders ...

Although it is both a religious rite and cultural practice, male circumcision is primarily done in the United States as a means of preventative health care. Yet Medicaid funding for this neonatal ...

Scientific evidence supporting the health benefits of male circumcision—surgical removal of the foreskin from the penis—dates back hundreds of years to observations made by physicians of their ...

Circumcision is one of the commonest surgical procedures performed on males. Opponents argue that infant circumcision can cause both physical and psychological harm, while recent evidence shows that ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Circumcised males are less likely than their uncircumcised peers to acquire a sexually transmitted infection, the findings of a 25-year study suggest. According to the ...

Jews have been circumcising their infant sons for thousands of years, in a ceremony called Brit Milah. While circumcision is not mentioned in the Qur’an, the Prophet Muhammad recommended it, and most ...