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Man Sues Hospital for Circumcising Him as Baby

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:33:43 CDT

A South Dakota prison inmate is suing the hospital where he was circumcised as a newborn, saying he only recently became aware that he'd undergone the procedure and that it robbed him of his sexual prowess. Dean Cochrun, 28, is asking for $1,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. He...

Circumcision Could Cut Risk of Prostate Cancer

Matt Cantor — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:35:04 CDT

There may be a new weapon in the fight against prostate cancer: circumcision. A study finds that men circumcised before their first time having sex had a 15% lower risk of the disease, NPR reports. That could be because cancer can be linked to infection. Prostate inflammation caused by an...

Baby's Herpes Death Linked to Circumcision

Mark Russell — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:51:01 CST

A two-week-old baby who died last year from a circumcision ritual contracted a deadly case of herpes from the ceremony, reports the New York Daily News . The city medical examiner said that the cause of death was “disseminated herpes simplex virus Type 1, complicating ritual circumcision with oral suction.” While...

Calif. Bans Circumcision Bans

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:20:51 CDT

The state of California has snipped San Francisco's uppity bid to erect a ban on circumcision. Any such ban is now banned in a law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Ban backers had collected nearly 8,000 signatures to put the measure to a vote in the city in November,...

Judge Chops SF Circumcision Vote

Rob Quinn — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:00:00 CDT

A judge has snipped a proposal to ban male circumcision from San Francisco's November ballot. The judge said the proposal—which would have made it a crime to circumcise males under the age of 18 unless there was "a clear, compelling and immediate medical need"—violated religious freedoms. She struck...

States Drop Circumcision Funds From Medicaid

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:26:13 CDT

A nationwide debate about circumcisions for newborn boys, combined with cash-strapped public health budgets, has Colorado taking sides with 17 other states that no longer fund Medicaid coverage of the once widely accepted procedure. For years, Colorado lawmakers considered doing away with funding for circumcisions under Medicaid—a move that...

'My Husband's Circumcision Saved My Life'

John Johnson — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:26:05 CDT

Circumcision haters are out in force these days, with a vote coming later this year in San Francisco on whether to ban the practice entirely . But opponents overlook the health benefits that circumcision brings, specifically how it cuts down on the transmission of HIV, writes Diane Cole in the Wall...

SF to Vote on Circumcision Ban

Rob Quinn — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:49:22 CDT

San Franciscans are indeed going to be the first American voters asked to decide on giving circumcision the chop. "Intactivists" have succeeded in getting a proposal to ban the circumcision of males under 18 onto the November ballot, reports the AP . The proposal would make performing a circumcision—even for...

NYC Toddler Dies After Circumcision

Rob Quinn — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:25:50 CDT

A toddler died a month shy of his second birthday after a routine circumcision at a Manhattan hospital. Jamaal Coleson Jr.'s uncle accuses Beth Israel Medical Center of botching the operation by giving the boy a general analgesic instead of a local one. Jamaal, who died 10 hours after...