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 ...

One of the first things most little boys in the U.S. experience is something they'll never remember – circumcision – but that doesn't mean it isn't a painful experience. The debate over whether ...

Then Salsbury picks up a Mogen clamp, a palm-size, stainless-steel device with two sharp edges that swing open and shut on a pivot. Salsbury calls it an “antique.” She pulls the baby’s foreskin up ...