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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A defective penile-circumcision clamp caused the tip of a 7-day-old infant's penis to be amputated, his mother claims in court. Though the mother identifies herself and her son in ...

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 ...

Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal health department on Friday insisted that the Tara KLamp method used to circumcise males was safe. This was after Aids activists and doctors called for the use of the ...

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 ...

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.

Circumcision is a common surgical procedure used to remove the foreskin of the penis. The tip of the penis, called the glans, is typically left exposed. The foreskin is reattached to the penis shaft.

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 ...