Health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind, non-surgical circumcision device hailed as a potential game-changer in the battle to forestall the spread of AIDS in Africa. The PrePex is the only ...

Delegates at the 19th International Aids conference in Washington, DC, in the United States this week were convinced the world was on the cusp of a major advance against HIV and that a medical device, ...

Circumcision, or the surgical removal of the skin covering the tip of the penis, can be a matter of family tradition, parental preference or religion—but what are the sexual, health and social aspects ...

Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces heterosexual HIV acquisition; therefore, the WHO has issued recommendations to implement VMMC throughout East and Southern Africa Most adult VMMCs ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently approved the PrePex™ device for male circumcision. The PrePex™ is the first non-surgical instrument to receive prequalification status from the WHO, ...

A 4-year-old boy caught in the middle of a circumcision battle is having that controversial procedure done today. A doctor at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood agreed to perform the ...

A three-year-old boy in India had his penis completely amputated during a ritual circumcision performed by a local barber, and surgeons managed to save it using a relatively simple grafting technique ...

A new study suggests that men who are circumcised before their first sexual encounter may be less likely to develop prostate cancer later on. As the study reports, sexually transmitted infections ...

J.H. Kellogg, cereal mogul, believed circumcision was a sure-fire cure for masturbation—particularly if the surgery was performed without chloroform so the boy could feel it. In the 1870s, his and ...

We need better education around foreskins, full stop The post Dr Ranj demystifies male circumcision, from medical facts to ...