Tag: circumcision
Would You Snip The Tip For Health & Safety?
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Posted to SciTech on Tue Dec 26, 2006 at 07:42:21 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
Infant and adult male circumcision has long been a controversial procedure. Common in North America but relatively uncommon (aside from among those who do it for religious or cultural reasons) everywhere else, the procedure's health benefits have been debated for quite some time - until the results of a recent National Institutes of Health study definitively proved that circumcised males are up to 50% less likely to contract the HIV virus.
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