After giving this advice Beaugé noted not once did he have to recommend circumcision.

Existing scientific evidence demonstrates potential medical benefits of newborn male circumcision; however, these data are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision.

However, there is inadequate information to recommend circumcision as a public health measure to prevent these diseases.

No major medical organization recommends non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision, and no major medical organization calls for banning it either.

Now, the 55,000-member academy has concluded that although there are potential benefits, the data are "not significant enough" to recommend routine circumcision.

Currently, the American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend routine circumcision for newborn males.

World Health Organization experts are also awaiting the results of those studies before deciding whether to recommend circumcision as a way to fight AIDS.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) does not recommend routine circumcision.

But it stopped short of recommending routine circumcision.

"However," it added, "these data are not sufficient to recommend routine neonatal circumcision."