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Not to mention, there's a lot of it-wont-happen-to-me thinking surrounding a newborn. Parents don't want to believe -their- child could be one of the children that die from circumcision.

The funny thing here is that not all Muslims believe that circumcision is good, much less a religious obligation. You can bet that if circumcision was a predominantly Muslim practice, and not also a Jewish one and one done by many Christian Americans, absolutely nobody would be defending it and...

While that may be true for a variety of polygenic diseases with unclear inheritance, that is not the case with the BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations. About 65% of women with a BRCA1 mutation will develop breast cancer, and 35-45% of them will develop ovarian cancer. About 40-55% of women with BRCA2...

Have you actually been tested for the gene mutations? Without a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation diagnosis, there is absolutely no way to know you have inherited the genes or will develop BC. If you -do- get a BRCA1/BRCA2 diagnosis, depending on which type you have it might significantly skew your...

I doubt there's been many, or any, patients with known HIV to receive HSCT before. I'd imagine that without the antibodies, with or without anti-retrovirals, the person would die pretty quickly. Just about everyone to receive a transplant needs immune-system suppressing medications for acute or...

I'm caught on this one. A new immune system from HSCT takes a solid month to engraft (show any evidence of existing) sometimes, and reasonable immune system function takes up to 6-12 months to be established. Even if the donor immune system has HIV antibodies, how did the person survive the...

You can have HPV without developing cervical cancer, but you almost never develop cervical cancer without having HPV. Reality check: your mother and all of her friends were not all coincidentally the one-in-a-few-million cases to develop cervical cancer without HPV. Chances are, they or...

as long as you're not pulling back far enough to forcibly separate the foreskin from the glans, I don't see a reason to believe you'd be harming the kid. That said, many parents and unfortunately many pediatricians in the US mistakenly believe that the foreskin should be completely and...

Er... you're not supposed to do anything special to take care of an infant or child's foreskin. You're supposed to wash the entire penis like you would wash a finger. If you were retracting (pulling back) his foreskin, not only were you hurting him, but you were also probably creating the...

"male circumcision should be considered an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention in countries and regions with heterosexual epidemics, high HIV and low male circumcision prevalence. Male circumcision provides only partial protection, and therefore should be only one element of a...

Unless he also has a vision loss, that would likely be unwelcome and obtrusive. My 2c on the matter would be to visually sign everything you say around him, he's old enough to get the idea if you keep it up.

If the medical benefits were actually significant and outweighed the medical risks, why does no major medical organization advocate for routine circumcision? Why is no major medical organization opposing this ban as bad medicine? Why are more and more doctors and hospitals refusing to perform...

And if you choose to ignore research showing that infants pain responses change after circumcision, aka, their brain IS altered and does remember the act, even if it is an "uncomplicated" circumcision.

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I'm glad to see this and would love to see even more widespread laws. I want a world wherein circumcision is seen for what it really is: male genital mutilation, and punished accordingly. The cleanliness angle is ridiculous. If someone told you that your daughters could have cleaner vulvas if...

Huh, advair powder (never used advair inhaler) doesn't really taste like anything funny, the primary taste you get if anything is the taste of the milk in it. It tastes like, well, powdered milk. Is he on the highest dose possible? 250/50 does absolutely nothing for me, 500/50 made my...

Barefoot shoes are okay for your feet, but flip flops are about the least healthy pair of shoes you can wear short of unreasonably high heels. If you do wear flip flops, you should wear a thick-bottomed pair (NOT thin foam) and one with the biggest "band" possible over your toes. Otherwise you...

I've had a pair of nike "air cushioned" shoes since 2008. I have worn them longer than I should have, about 400-500 miles, but they are REALLY comfortable and I don't want to shell out the money to replace them. I don't wear them throughout the day but do wear them when I go out for walks...

I am having a little trouble understanding you, but: If you are having strange new headaches, see a doctor. Strange new headaches can mean something is wrong with your body or your brain. Tylenol is not really a good medicine for headaches, and if you use it a lot, it can cause headaches...

That would be an unethical doctor illegally performing surgery on patients he has no reason to believe need it. Mammography is never, ever ever EVER diagnostic of breast cancer.