The patient consented to only partial circumcision to treat a skin condition on his penis but the surgeon performed a full circumcision Getty A New Zealand man who sought medical treatment for a skin ...

An advisory governmental institution in an Australian state is recommending that it ban non-medical circumcision on boys “except for religious reasons.” The Tasmania Law Reform Institute – whose task ...

We have known for many years that cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease (STD), but it wasn’t until recently that we discovered that the human papillomavirus (HPV) was the main infectious ...

A man has been circumcised without consent after what the Heath and Disability Commissioner says resulted from “ineffective communication processes”. He’d “expressly stated” he did not consent to a ...

Male circumcision offers a degree of protection against genital herpes and human papillomavirus infections, scientists report in the March 26 New England Journal of Medicine. Previous research shows ...