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NEWS ABOUT: circumcision

circumcision stories: 5 news summaries
OPINION

CDC Must Stop Advocating Circumcision

Male procedure just as backward as reviled female version

Sep 29, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virtually everyone in the Western world seems to agree that female circumcision is horrible. It greatly reduces sexual pleasure, violates individual autonomy, and provides no discernible health benefits. Well, all that is true of male circumcision, too, writes Ethan Epstein, yet the CDC is considering a plan to “promote... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • female circumcision • genital mutilation • circumcision • female genital mutilation

Rush to Obama: Hands Off
My Private Parts

Limbaugh makes leap from CDC advisory to mandatory circumcision

Aug 28, 09 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says President Obama is out to get his foreskin. Seriously. Or at least semi-seriously. It all started when the the Centers for Disease Control reported that it's thinking of issuing an advisory touting the health beneifits of male circumcision in infancy, writes Gabriel Winant for Salon. Conservative blogger... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • parenting • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Rush Limbaugh • circumcision • President Obama • death panel

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says he’s finally an A-lister, the Huffington Post reports, after being name-checked by Jay-Z in a track leaked recently off the rapper’s forthcoming The Blueprint 3 album. “Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls, it’s 2010 not 1864,” goes the lyric from... More »

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entertainment • Rush Limbaugh • race relations • circumcision • rap music • Jay-Z • President Obama • Jay-ZTV • Blueprint 3

Treating Herpes Fails to Cut
HIV Rate

Unexpected results stun scientists hoping for cut in transmission

Feb 5, 08 11:01 AM CST
(Newser) - An eagerly anticipated HIV study returned disappointing results yesterday, crushing scientists' hopes that targeting the genital herpes virus could help reduce the transmission of HIV. Although the reasoning seemed sound—having herpes boosts a person's contraction risk nearly threefold, so targeting herpes should combat HIV infection—the study found no... More »

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circumcision • World Health Organization • HIV/AIDS • herpes • scientific study • Retrovirus Conference • Connie Celum • acyclovir

UN Urges Mass Circumcision

Mass circumcisions in AIDS-stricken region could reduce infection

Mar 29, 07 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mass circumcision should be urged in AIDS-devastated regions to cut infection rates, the UN said yesterday. With trials demonstrating that circumcised men are 60% less likely to contract HIV, such programs could prevent 5.7 million new HIV cases in the next two decades, the Guardian reports. More »

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Africa • United Nations • AIDS • HIV • circumcision

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