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 ...

Beyond physician preference and cosmetic outcome, pain is a discriminating variable when evaluating circumcision instruments. Three studies have evaluated circumcision associated pain with the use of ...

The reforming zealots are at it again! This time their latest cause is infant male circumcision, a procedure that has been practiced in western culture for thousands of years. Making their case that ...

A new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is likely to throw fuel on the fiery controversy surrounding male infant circumcision. The AAP's statement touts the medical ...

Just mention circumcision and adults squirm in discomfort. Ouch. Yet most baby boys go under the knife without anesthetic. A team at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford has figured out ...

One of the first things most little boys in the US experience is something they'll never remember -- circumcision -- but that doesn't mean it isn't a painful experience. The debate over whether ...

Isaac is cradled in his grandfather’s arms. In the space of a few minutes, the Orthodox ritual circumciser, or mohel, separates the foreskin from the head of Isaac’s penis, pulls the skin forward and ...

LOS ANGELES — Melanie Hall did not think she was putting her week-old son at risk when she brought him to a Los Angeles doctor to be circumcised. But after a nurse took the baby into an examining room ...

Standing outside of Centura Health Primary Care in Thornton on April 6, two men dressed in all-white garb – except for a large, blood-red mark on the crotch of their pants – faced traffic and held a ...