Circumcision offers little HIV protection to gay/bisexual men -- overall. But it might cut HIV risk in predominantly insertive partners. It's now clear that circumcision reduces heterosexual men's ...

TORONTO – A practice dating back to biblical times could soon join the list of powerful weapons against AIDS. New studies suggest that male circumcision -- the surgical removal of the foreskin from ...

Male circumcision, if widely adopted in Africa, would prevent 3 million deaths over 20 years. It would work as well as a moderately effective AIDS vaccine. The prediction comes from an international ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much to prevent infections among gay and bisexual men ...

Once the norm in the United States, the practice of slicing off a boy’s foreskin shortly after birth has become less common, and more controversial, in recent years. On the one hand are Jews and ...

Los Angeles-- Declining rates of circumcision among infants will translate into billions of dollars' worth of unnecessary medical costs in the United States as the boys grow up and become sexually ...

A few months before his son was born, Thomas Wolfe of Wheeling, W.Va., consulted the rabbi of his Reform congregation to discuss plans for the baby’s circumcision. “I had the perception that a ...

The recent California bill signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown making it illegal for local municipalities across the state to pass laws banning circumcision was a sorely needed breath of political ...

Circumcision is in the news. Last year, they tried to outlaw this ancient ritual in California. And recently, criminal charges were brought against a young Rabbi for performing circumcision in Germany ...