Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Circumcisions are sometimes performed as part of religious rituals using specific faith traditions. However, many parents have a ...

Editor’s note: The lawsuits against Bruchim, Rebecca Wald, Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon and all other named defendants were dismissed by an Idaho judge in February and March, respectively. A man who made a ...

JOHANNESBURG, March 28 -- Global health officials said Wednesday that countries with rampant AIDS epidemics should begin offering free or subsidized circumcisions in hopes of preventing millions of ...

NEAR MOUNT ELGON, Uganda (AP) — The dancers shook their hips to the beat of drummers who led the way, anticipating the start of mass circumcision among the Bamasaaba people of Uganda’s mountainous ...

Where would California be without the new law, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in recent days, to ban local governments from banning circumcision? Well, California would be in deep trouble, with a broken ...

Circumcisions have been virtually suspended in Germany for the past four months. The practice was effectively banned after a regional court in Cologne ruled that circumcision amounts to assault. That ...

BERLIN -- The German cabinet approved a bill on Wednesday to make circumcision legal, a major step toward ending a controversy that started when a Cologne court banned the practice. Foreign Minister ...

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

The benefits of male circumcision mean that the procedure should be recommended to parents of newborn boys, according to a draft of federal guidelines. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

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 ...