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Article: American Academy of Pediatrics alters its position on routine circumcision.
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- HealthFacts
- Article date:
- April 1, 1989
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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ALTERS ITS POSITION ON ROUTINE CIRCUMCISION
The first evidence to identify a medical benefit to circumcision was announced last month in a Report from the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision. The incidence of urinary tract infections in uncircumcised males was ten times that of circumcised males in a series of studies that began in 1985. The results contradict the academy's 1971 position paper which found no valid medical indications for routine circumcision. In the intervening years, the U.S. rate of circumcision decreased steadily from 95 percent of all newborn males to 59.5 percent in 1987.
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