Infant boy brought to Jerusalem hospital hours after Jewish ritual was performed; police open investigation, body sent for ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stunningly claimed Thursday there may be a link between circumcision and autism — due to distribution of Tylenol to infants following the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ryan Heydari was just 22 days old when the newborn bled to death in an Ontario hospital due to complications from his circumcision ...

Circumcision is one of medicine's more controversial procedures. New data, while unlikely to settle the debate, provide a check in the plus column by suggesting that boys who undergo the procedure may ...

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A Malaysian boy just 9 years old had to have his penis amputated due to negligence on the part of his surgeon, lawyers in Kuala Lumpur said Friday. The doctor accidentally cut off the head of the ...

(JTA) — British Jews are weighing in after authorities said they are considering deeming some circumcisions “a form of child abuse” following deaths from the procedure. The Crown Prosecution Service, ...

Police today detained a pharmacist after a nine-year-old boy was seriously injured during a circumcision at a medical facility in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area. The detainee is Khalilur Rahman, 52, a ...

(CBS) Is circumcision a key to better health for men and women - or a form of genital mutilation? An anti-circumcision activist in San Francisco, Lloyd Schofield, goes with the latter view, saying ...

There may be a new push for circumcision in Washington, thanks to a review of national guidelines for the procedure. Less than a quarter of all infant boys in Washington are circumcised — one of the ...

Some Hasidic Jews practice “metzitzah b’peh,” in which the mohel — the specially trained person performing the circumcision — uses oral suction “to draw blood from the area of the circumcision wound.” ...

An ancient and now rare type of circumcision called metzitzah b'peh, which is sometimes performed by Orthodox Jews on newborn boys, appears to be behind the spread of herpes simplex virus type 1 ...