This article explores the urgent need to modernise circumcision practices in Africa, highlighting the dangers of traditional ...

Twenty-seven and married for eight years, Judy... When most Americans hear the term “female circumcision,” they typically do not place its practice in the context of the United States, nor do they ...

In Canada, the rate is only 17 percent and in Britain 5 percent. Everywhere else in the non-Muslim and Jewish world, circumcision is almost unknown. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good ...

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 ...

The prevalence of male circumcision worldwide is primarily due to the role of religion, although cultural and health reasons have also been significant factors. Male circumcision is compulsory for ...

Circumcision happens for non-religious reasons as well as religious. In the Philippines, it has become a social tradition with boys usually being circumcised in a coming-of-age ritual. It is also ...

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 ...

In competent hands the risks of circumcision are almost unheard of. Problem is that circumcision is considered to be a basic entry-level technique. When I was in medical school, I went to the ...

Without overwhelming medical evidence favoring circumcision, Sherman says, it would have seemed to her like deciding to cut off his ear lobes. "From everything we read and everyone we talked to ...

The South African authorities have suspended several initiation schools where boys have died in recent weeks taking part in circumcision ceremonies. The country's religious and cultural commission ...

“The spread of neonatal herpes through ritual circumcision is a public health ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us ...