The current position of the American Academy of Pediatrics is that in the United States, the available evidence suggests that the benefits of elective newborn male circumcision outweigh the risks.

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 ...

The following text provides a summary of the teaching points that appear in the video. Circumcision of the male newborn is a surgical procedure in which the foreskin of the penis, including the inner ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, something ...

Gomco Circumcision Clamp in the Medical Museum at Kiwi North. In a recent tour of the Medical Museum at Kiwi North given by incredibly knowledgeable museum curator Dr John Swinney, I saw a small ...

Circumcision is a surgical procedure to remove the penile foreskin — the retractable fold of skin that covers the tip of the penis (glans penis). Circumcision of newborns is fairly common in the ...