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}}</ref> The Mogen clamp's name derives from the Hebrew word "magain," or shield, and it was invented in an effort to standardize [[circumcision ]] equipment then in use by both doctors and mohels without medical training who perform the procedure in private homes and other locations.<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" /> The device is designed to "shield" the glans, as the name implies, while the mohel slices off the [[foreskin]]. A user must first rip the foreskin from the glans, then pull it through the clamp and slices it off with a single motion.<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" /> Some orthodox Jews only recognize circumcisions performed with devices based on the traditional design,<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" /> and for this reason it is preferred by traditional mohels[[mohel]]s.<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" />
== Injury reports ==
== Mogen goes out of business ==
Mogen went out of business in July of 2010<ref name="tagami2010" /> after losing a 10.8 million dollar law suit,<ref name="tagami2010" /> after a [[mohel]]<ref name="tagami2010" /> severed the end of a baby's glans<ref name="tagami2010" /> using one of their clamps. Mogen claimed that injury was impossible with its use.<ref name="tagami2010" /><ref name='Law.com 2010-07-29'>{{REFnews
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Mogen clamps were made by other manufacturers, including Miltex, which stopped distributing the devices in 1994.<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" /> Even then, Miltex's then-president Saul Kleinkramer defended the device, placing the blame on "possible mishandling" instead of the design of the device.<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" /> Despite having stopped distributing the devices in 1994, some Miltex manufactured Mogen clamps are still in use<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" />, and Miltex, along with their parent company, Integra Life Sciences Holding Corp., were recently involved (July 2011) in a $4.6-million settlement.<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" /> Miltex reached a confidential settlement with a North Hollywood couple for another Mogen-related circumcision botch in 2000.<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" /> In its response to the lawsuit, Integra maintained that the Mogen clamp was safe, carried adequate warnings and users should be held liable for any harm caused.<ref name="hennessy-fiske2011" />
== Usage in Africa ==
Despite going out of business in America, and despite its notoriety for glans amputations, Mogen clamps are being used in a pilot project to have male children circumcised at birth under the pretext of [[Circumcision and HIV | HIV]] prevention.<ref name='Capital News 2010-09'>{{REFnews
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