Although it is both a religious rite and cultural practice, male circumcision is primarily done in the United States as a means of preventative health care. Yet Medicaid funding for this neonatal ...

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.

CHICAGO -- Advanced practice providers (APPs) performed office-based neonatal circumcisions with results comparable to those of physicians, according to two studies reported here. A circumcision ...

Eran Elhaik consults the DNA Diagnostic Center (DDC), DNA Consultants, and MonDevices. He receives funding from MRC and DDC. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or cot death remains the leading cause ...

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently criticized infant circumcision, the practice of removing a baby's foreskin after birth. Yang stated his support for intactivism, a portmanteau of ...

In that same JAMA editorial, you and Dr. Gray contend that if a vaccine were available that reduced HIV risk by 60%, genital herpes risk by 30%, and high-risk HPV risk by 35%, as male circumcision ...

Male circumcision is the surgical removal of some or all of the foreskin (or prepuce) from the penis. The origins of circumcision are unknown, and probably predate written history, but the practice is ...

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) or cot death remains the leading cause of infant death in many developed countries. There are around 2,700 babies who die from cot death every year in the US – and ...

LAWRENCE, KANSAS — Although it is both a religious rite and cultural practice, male circumcision is primarily done in the United States as a means of preventative health care. Yet Medicaid funding for ...