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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A group seeking to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has succeeded in getting their controversial measure on the November ballot, meaning voters will be asked ...

Circumcision may help protect men from the AIDS virus but it does not protect the wives and female partners of infected men, researchers reported. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three studies published on Wednesday add to evidence that circumcision can protect men from the deadly AIDS virus and human papillomavirus, the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer ...

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 ...

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 ...