LOS ANGELES — Melanie Hall did not think she was putting her week-old son at risk when she brought him to a Los Angeles doctor to be circumcised. But after a nurse took the baby into an examining room ...

PHILADELPHIA (CN) – A defective penile-circumcision clamp caused the tip of a 7-day-old infant’s penis to be amputated, his mother claims in court. Though the mother identifies herself and ...

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.

Beyond physician preference and cosmetic outcome, pain is a discriminating variable when evaluating circumcision instruments. Three studies have evaluated circumcision associated pain with the use of ...

Routine neonatal circumcision can be a painful procedure. Although analgesia for circumcision has been studied extensively, there are few studies comparing which surgical technique may be associated ...

Just mention circumcision and adults squirm in discomfort. Ouch. Yet most baby boys go under the knife without anesthetic. A team at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford has figured out ...

Circumcision involves the surgical removal of the prepuce, or foreskin, that covers the glans, or tip, of the penis. A physician, often the attending OB/GYN, performs the simple surgery the first or ...

The maker of an instrument used in circumcisions claimed that injury was impossible with its use, but after an infant lost a portion of his penis during an operation with the Mogen clamp, a judge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Circumcisions are sometimes performed as part of religious rituals using specific faith traditions. However, many parents have a ...