NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Circumcision has been found to lower men's risk of contracting HIV through heterosexual sex, and now new findings suggest that it also cuts the risk of infection with the ...

The benefits of male circumcision outweigh the risks, according a long awaited draft of federal guidelines from U.S. health officials released on Tuesday, which indicate that scientific evidence ...

CHICAGO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines saying the health benefits of infant circumcision outweigh the risks of the surgery, but the influential ...

Circumcision during infancy has a low rate of complications, but the risk becomes much higher as boys get older, a new study reports. American researchers analyzed data from 1.4 million boys who ...

A new study from Canada indicates a possible connection between male circumcision and a lower likelihood of prostate cancer. The study, published in the British urology journal BJU International, was ...

CHICAGO -- The nation’s most influential pediatricians group says the health benefits of circumcision in newborn boys outweigh any risks and insurance companies should pay for it. In its latest policy ...

Male circumcision is considered the oldest, most frequently performed surgery in the world, yet it remains controversial. According to Dr. Greg Marchand, an ob-gyn at the Marchand Institute for ...

Men who are circumcised may have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, a new study finds. Researchers at the University of Washington surveyed 1,754 men with prostate cancer, and 1,645 similar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Circumcisions are sometimes performed as part of religious rituals using specific faith traditions. However, many parents have a ...

U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence supports having the procedure done despite opposition from advocates who ...

After all the nonsense from “intactivists” and their ridiculous war against circumcision, a little sanity from the CDC. It recommends circumcision’s health benefits as outweighing risks. From the ...