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 ...

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The following text provides a summary of the teaching points that appear in the video. Circumcision of the male newborn is a surgical procedure in which the foreskin of the penis, including the inner ...

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 ...