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 ...

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 ...

May 26, 2011 (Washington, DC) — A simple disposable device, known as PrePex, can be used to effectively circumcise male adults without anesthesia or a sterile environment and with no blood loss, and ...

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 ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), circumcision can reduce men's risk of contracting HIV by up to 60%, and two non-surgical circumcision devices are undergoing trials to get the ...

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 ...

Circumcision is a surgical procedure to remove the penile foreskin — the retractable fold of skin that covers the tip of the penis (glans penis). Circumcision of newborns is fairly common in 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 ...