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This section offers news briefs relating to the field of medicine as of December 6, 2014. Proposals for reducing the legal limit on ozone pollution were released by the U.S. government. Polio vaccination in Balochistan, Pakistan was suspended by the World Health Organization (WHO) because of an attack that killed four programme workers in Quetta city. The Danish parliament conducted an opinion poll to determine whether to introduce tighter regulation for male circumcision.

The article focuses on the measures to safeguard male circumcision. Circumcision is sometimes done by the religious scholars but now several countries have imposed a ban on it. It informs that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released their Circumcision Policy Statement which declares the benefits of circumcision for newborn boys to decrease the risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections.

The article reports on the debate for the male circumcision in the U.S. It states that anti-circumcision groups in California gathered more than 7000 signatures to outlaw the practice, claiming that the procedure violates human rights. It mentions that the debate will further intensify since the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are making recommendations for the procedure.