Two studies from 2013 and 2015 found some association between circumcision and autism, but both have significant limitations, small sample sizes and methodology issues. Neither showed that ...

U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence supports having the procedure done and health insurers should pay for it.

A systematic review links male circumcision to significantly lower risk of Cervical Cancer and lesions in female partners.

Circumcision for male infants is becoming less common in the U.S., according to new data published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The paper also finds that over their lifetime, half of all uncircumcised ...

Medically reviewed by Matthew Wosnitzer, MD Key Takeaways Circumcision can make cleaning the penis easier and reduce certain ...

A Forward analysis of government data shows that 87% of the baby boys born in West Virginia were circumcised in 2009. Two thousand miles west, in Nevada, the procedure was performed on only 12% of ...

Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin, the tissue covering the head (called the glans) of the penis. It's an ancient practice that has its origin in religious rites. Today, many parents ...

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently criticized infant circumcision, the practice of removing a baby's foreskin after birth. Yang stated his support for intactivism, a portmanteau of ...

Heather Hironimus has fought to avoid circumcising her 4-year-old son. — -- Heather Hironimus does not want her son to be circumcised -- and she's been jailed for refusing to cooperate with a ...

Two infants have died and 13 cases reported since 2000, despite health law. April 5, 2013— -- Two infants in the last three months in New York City's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community have been ...

Some pastors offer circumcision ceremonies as an alternative to older practices involving ancestor worship, misogyny, and ...