NEW YORK – U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence supports having the procedure done and health insurers should ...

U.S. health officials are poised to endorse circumcision as a means of preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released ...

Anti-male circumcision activists and believers — odd start, I know — take note: the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that circumcision's benefits exceed its risks, in a draft on ...

The number of baby boys getting circumcised in hospitals has dropped slightly in the past decade, health experts said on Thursday. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Why are newborn circumcision rates dropping in the U.S.? In a report released Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that hospital circumcisions had declined over the past ...

U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence supports having the procedure done and health insurers should pay for it.

Circumcision is a brief medical procedure that involves cutting away the foreskin around the tip of the penis. Germs can grow underneath the foreskin, and CDC officials say the procedure can lower a ...