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A nurse has been found guilty of manslaughter after causing a baby's death by botching his circumcision. Grace Adeleye, 67, carried out the procedure on four-week-old Goodluck Caubergs at an address in Chadderton, Oldham, in April 2010.

Declining rates of circumcision among infants will translate into billions of dollars of unnecessary medical costs in the U.S. as these boys grow up and become sexually active men, researchers at Johns Hopkins University warned.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Sunday a bill that prevents local governments from banning the practice of male circumcision.

A US truck driver tells a court he feels less of a man because a doctor amputated his penis during what was supposed to have been a circumcision.

San Francisco residents will not be voting on whether male circumcisions should be banned in the city this fall.

Activists are promoting circumcision bans for minors in San Francisco and Santa Monica, and Jewish groups see a real threat, likening the measures to bans in Soviet-era Russia and Eastern Europe.

A group seeking to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has succeeded in getting their controversial measure on the November ballot, meaning voters will be asked to weigh in on what until now has been a private family matter....

Circumcision, which has helped prevent AIDS among heterosexual men in Africa, doesn't help protect gay men from the virus, according to the largest U.S. study to look at the question.