About 100,000 African men have undergone voluntary medical circumcisions for HIV/AIDS prevention with a simple device that requires no doctors, stitches, surgery or anesthetic. The PrePex disposable ...

Men – boys – of my generation were either Roundheads or Cavaliers. They either had one, or they didn’t: foreskins. The Roundheads had been circumcised, the Cavaliers not. Male circumcision, the ...

Circumcision is one of the oldest surgical procedures in the world and holds an important place in Judaism as the brit mila. Here's everything you should know. An ancient but still common surgical ...

Male circumcision (MC) is the first planned surgical procedure ever performed. Nowadays many of these procedures are not necessarily carried out in a medical environment, therefore the real number ...

Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin covering the tip (glans) of the penis. In most cases, doctors perform this procedure shortly after a child’s birth. People have circumcisions for ...

In a radical departure from earlier strategies, public health officials are now arguing that circumcision of men should be a key weapon in the fight against infection with the human immunodeficiency ...