I was living in Berlin when I found out that I was pregnant. My doctor there, a very exuberant Chilean woman, was doing an ultrasound around 14-weeks when she suddenly paused near the baby’s abdomen. ...

Boys born in the West are more likely to skip circumcision than they are to have the once common procedure. It's a dramatic change over the past 32 years. Back in 1979, about two-thirds of boys out ...

Brian J. Morris does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations. Medical ...

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 ...

Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $30. To put it mildly, circumcision is a delicate subject. It’s almost impossible to discuss the matter without cracking a joke, probably because the ritual makes ...

I just finished reading an article from a popular American parenting magazine that left me feeling very disheartened. The article was about the "benefits" of routine infant circumcision, but it was ...