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Male Circumcision Reduces Penile HPV Incidence and Persistence: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya. [PDF]

, 2021
BACKGROUND Male circumcision reduces the risk of human immunodeficiency virus infection in men. We assessed the effect of male circumcision on the incidence and natural history of human papillomavirus (HPV) in a randomized clinical trial in Kisumu ...
Rohner, Eliane, Backes, Danielle M., Rohner, E., Meijer, Chris J. L. M., Smith, Jennifer S, Bailey, R.C., Mei, Wenwen, Agot, K., Meijer, C.J.L.M., Bailey, Robert C., Chakraborty, Hrishikesh, Agot, Kawango, Meijer, Chris J L M, Hudgens, M.G., Bailey, Robert C, Backes, D.M., Chakraborty, H., Hudgens, Michael G., Moses, S., Mei, W., Smith, Jennifer S., Smith, J.S., Hudgens, Michael G, Moses, Stephen, Backes, Danielle M   +24 more
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Limits of Enlightenment and the Law - On the Legality of Ritual Male Circumcision in Europe today

Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, 2013
The legality of ritual circumcision of male infants is a subject not regularly discussed under European or international Human Rights Law, let alone national law.
Mark Swatek-Evenstein
doaj   +3 more sources

MicroRNA‐130a‐3p Targets the Androgen‐Related Transcription Factor MAFB: Effects on Proliferation, Migration, Apoptosis, and Cell Cycle in Hypospadias

Pediatric Discovery, EarlyView.
MicroRNA‐130a‐3p targets and inhibits MAFB expression, leading to the development of hypospadimas. MicroRNA‐130a‐3p inhibits the expression of MAFB, disrupts the normal processes of cell proliferation, migration, cell apoptosis, and cycle progression, and ultimately leads to the development of hypospadias.
Jiaxin Zhou, Yixuan Wang, Zhicheng Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Zhenmin Liu, Hongsong Chen, Xingguo Luo, Chunlan Long, Lianju Shen, Xing Liu, Guanghui Wei   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Male infant circumcision and associated factors in Konso Zone Southern Ethiopia: community based survey

BMC Pediatrics
Background Infant male circumcision reduces urinary tract infections during infancy and sexually transmitted infections during adulthood. However, people in various communities challenge male infant circumcision in Ethiopia.
Goye Orkaido Berisha, Berhan Tsegaye Negash, Zemenu Yohannes Kassa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association between male circumcision and women's biomedical health outcomes: a systematic review

The Lancet Global Health, 2017
Background: Male circumcision reduces men's risk of acquiring HIV and some sexually transmitted infections from heterosexual exposure, and is essential for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.
Jonathan M Grund, MPH, Tyler S Bryant, MHS, Inimfon Jackson, MPH, Kelly Curran, MPH, Naomi Bock, MD, Carlos Toledo, PhD, Joanna Taliano, MLS, Sheng Zhou, MBBS, Jorge Martin del Campo, MD, Ling Yang, ScM, Apollo Kivumbi, MPH, Peizi Li, MD, Sherri Pals, PhD, Dr Stephanie M Davis, MD   +13 more
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Multifactorial determinants of male genital measurements: Correlations of stretched penile length and anogenital distance with anthropometric parameters

Andrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The stretched penile length is recognized as the most reliable measure of true penile size, this fact is not widely acknowledged, and societal myths often associate penile length with other anthropometric measurements. While markers of prenatal androgen exposure, such as anogenital distance and the second‐to‐fourth digit ratio (2D ...
Coşkun Kaya, Mehmet Erhan Aydın, Aykut Aykaç, Sevda Sungur, Murat Dursun, Ateş Kadıoğlu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Male Sexual and Reproductive Health in Diabetes and Obesity Pharmacotherapy: A Source‐Triangulated Counseling Map

Andrology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Drugs used for diabetes and obesity increasingly shape male sexual and reproductive counseling, but clinical studies, trial registrations, regulatory labels, and patents answer different questions. Objectives The objective is to map these sources and define what each can support when counseling men receiving metabolic drugs ...
Marek Broul, Michal Dubský, Aneta Hujová, Michaela Liegertová   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Male genital lichen sclerosus

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.
Male genital lichen sclerosus is driven by chronic, occluded exposure of susceptible genital epithelium to urine, rather than infection or autoimmunity. This review synthesizes clinical, anatomical and molecular evidence showing how microincontinence and occlusion initiate inflammation, fibrosis and carcinogenesis, and explains the curative effect of ...
Georgios Kravvas, Rory Barry, Richard E. Watchorn, Christopher B. Bunker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recurrent UTIs in Children With CAKUT

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) encompass diverse diagnoses that commonly present as urinary tract dilatation and are the leading cause of kidney failure in children. Antenatal hydronephrosis occurs in ~1% of pregnancies; most resolve spontaneously, but conditions such as posterior urethral valves (PUV ...
Lucielle Standish, Holly Campbell, Shehryar Saharan, Lilian M. Johnstone, Neil Price, Chris Kimber, Kiarash Taghavi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source