Circumcision may help protect men from the AIDS virus but it does not protect the wives and female partners of infected men, researchers reported. The disappointed researchers had to stop the trial, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Circumcision may help protect men from the AIDS virus but it does not protect the wives and female partners of infected men, researchers reported on Thursday. The disappointed ...

BOSTON — John pulled his cab over when he heard Dr. Nawal M. Nour on the radio. The Sudanese American physician was describing the clinic she runs for women who have undergone female circumcision -- ...

More than 230 million women and girls around the world have now undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations ...

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An increasing number of women who have undergone genital mutilation (also called female circumcision) are immigrating to the U.S. While we are learning how to address the physical sequelae of female ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Alima Traore doesn't remember when part of her genitals was removed as a young child in her native Mali. But even at 29, she still lives with the consequences. There's the pain, ...