What is it like to be asexual?

AppId is over the quota17. Januar 2012 Stand 09:53 GMT von Lucy Wallis BBC News Jenni ist in einer Beziehung mit Tim, wer nicht asexuelle Twenty-one-Year-Old Jenni Goodchild ist erlebt nicht sexuelle Anziehung, aber in einer zunehmend sexualisierte Gesellschaft wie ist es zu asexuelle?"Für mich es im Grunde bedeutet nur, dass ich nicht Leute betrachten und denken 'hmm ja ich würde haben Sex mit Ihnen,', das einfach nicht passieren," sagt Sonja.Ein Student in Oxford, Jenni ist eine von den geschätzten...

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Abandon NHS bill, two unions say

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 19 January 2012 Last updated at 08:12 GMT By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News Howard Catton, RCN: "We cannot move ahead with new health bill"The unions representing nurses and midwives have joined others in stating their "outright opposition" to the government's NHS plans in England.The Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives had expressed concerns in the past, but said they were willing to work with ministers.However, now they want the entire bill covering the changes to be dropped.Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said...

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Miliband and Cameron clash on NHS

25 January 2012 13: 31 GMT state Health Bill works its way through Parliament work leader Ed Miliband, invited to delete questions fight David Cameron, his plans to restructure the NHS in England, during their Prime Minister.Mr Miliband said: "this is a law no one wants." "It is by the doctors, nurses and patients, however,.""Beiseite-her pride and arrogance and drop of this... unwanted Bill," he said.Mr Cameron said to support the reforms which would improve NHS and said there were "Thousands...

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Foetus parties: Womb with a view?

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 13 January 2012 Last updated at 01:31 GMT By Prof Cathy Warwick Royal College of Midwives, chief executive 'People gather to look at scans of unborn babies' The US tradition of having a baby shower to celebrate an impending birth is now commonplace in the UK. But "foetus parties", where people gather to view 3D and 4D scan pictures are also gaining in popularity.In this week's Scrubbing Up. Prof Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of...

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Toilet shortage 'is health risk'

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 19 January 2012 Last updated at 16:17 GMT Local authorities do not have legal duty to provide toilets A lack of public toilets puts vulnerable people at greater risk of strokes and heart attacks, assembly members have been told.A cross-party committee also heard a shortage of toilets interfered with police work as officers had to return to their stations to use the toilet.AMs took evidence on the public health implications of inadequate facilities...

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Is it too late to stop the NHS review?

19. January 2012 stand 17: 01 GMT by Nick Triggle health correspondent of the BBC News great health trade unions have now said against the changes of health workers, it is fair to say, have the Government NHS reforms a pretty big thumbs down.Both the British Medical Association in the transition from critical friend have the Royal College of nursing and Royal College of midwives joined outright opponents.The other large health - unison, the admin and support staff such as institution represents...

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Taps behind baby infection deaths

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 24 January 2012 Last updated at 18:34 GMT The neo-natal unit at the Royal under went a deep clean Sink taps were the source of an infection which killed three babies at a Belfast hospital, the Northern Ireland health minister has confirmed.Edwin Poots told the NI Assembly that the Pseudomonas bacteria had been traced to taps at a neo-natal unit in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital.The unit was deep cleaned at the weekend after six babies were found...

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Health trust in Army medics plan

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 19 January 2012 Last updated at 22:31 GMT Pontefract Hospital's A&E department has been closed overnight since 1 November A health trust which shut its A&E unit in Pontefract overnight due to doctor shortages is considering using Army medics in a bid to solve the problem. The department has been closed from 22:00 to 08:00 each day since November following the move by the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.The trust said it was looking at how...

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‘Early growth’ linked to asthma

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 20 January 2012 Last updated at 08:21 GMT Researchers studied over 5,000 children Babies who grow rapidly in the first three months of life may be more likely to develop asthma as children, say Dutch researchers.They found "accelerated weight gain" was linked to a higher chance of symptoms such as wheezing.The study of 5,125 children by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam suggested no connection with earlier impaired growth in the womb.Asthma UK...

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Abortion clinics cleared for TV

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 21 January 2012 Last updated at 13:24 GMT Not-for-profit pregnancy clinics are already allowed to advertise on TV and radio Private clinics that charge for pregnancy services including abortions will be able to advertise on television and radio under new rules.The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) said there was no justification to bar clinics offering post-conception advice services (PCAS).For-profit pregnancy centres can currently...

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'Three-person IVF' moves closer

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 19 January 2012 Last updated at 12:59 GMT Almost all cells have mitochondria - shown here in green Public opinion will help decide the future of a controversial genetic technique to stop serious conditions being passed from mother to child.It replaces defective genetic material in the egg in order to eliminate rare mitochondrial diseases.After the consultation into "three-person IVF", ministers will decide whether to allow it in patients.A £5.8m centre...

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Bid to stop doctor gagging orders

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 26 January 2012 Last updated at 00:00 GMT Whistle-blowing in the NHS has received a lot of attention in recent years Doctors are being told they can no longer sign contracts that contain gagging orders, in new guidance issued by the medical regulator.The General Medical Council advice states medics should not enter contracts or deals that seek to stop them raising concerns about poor care.The guidance also makes clear that doctors have a duty to act...

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Pre dementia 'in men more often'

25. January 2012 last health reporter, BBC News updated at 22: 44 GMT by Michelle Roberts the risk of dementia increases with age, even though dementia is more common in women, it seems that men to higher risk of the earliest signs of the disease, according to the latest research.It is unclear why more men avoid full-blown disease, but understand that this may be to hit key of Neurology reported dementia, archives.Finally, also a way to stop dementia can cause, hope experts.Investigators U.S. tracked...

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Army A&E medics plan 'worrying'

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 20 January 2012 Last updated at 17:52 GMT Pontefract Hospital's A&E department has been closed overnight since 1 November A proposal to bring in Army medics to cover a shortage of doctors is "deeply worrying", MP Yvette Cooper says.The A&E unit in Pontefract, run by Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, has been closed overnight since 1 November.Ms Cooper, shadow home secretary and MP for Pontefract and Castleford, was backed by Hemsworth MP Jon...

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Experts review vitamin D advice

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 24 January 2012 Last updated at 12:19 GMT Concerns over vitamin D deficiency - A quarter of toddlers affectedThe chief medical officer for England, Dame Sally Davies, is to contact medical staff about concerns young children and some adults are not getting enough vitamin D.Government guidelines recommend some groups, including the under-fives, should take a daily supplement.However, recent research found that many parents and health professionals were unaware of the advice. There has been an increase in childhood rickets over the past 15 years.According...

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'Food FRY in olive oil' heart tip

25. January 2012 stand at 00: 04 GMT by Michelle Roberts Health Reporter, BBC News fried foods food may be not bad for the heart, as long as you olive oil or sunflower to use oil, say experts.They found no increased risk of heart disease or premature death associated with food that has been cooked in this way.But the investigators stress that results from the study of the typical Spanish food in which these "healthy" oils in abundance, be found cooking are not for lard or other oils.So traditional...

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Mutant bird flu research halted

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 20 January 2012 Last updated at 23:40 GMT Almost all H5N1 human cases have been contracted through contact with live or dead poultry Scientists who created a potentially more deadly bird flu strain have temporarily stopped their research amid fears it could be used by terrorists.In a letter published in Science and Nature, the teams call for an "international forum" to debate the risks and value of the studies.US authorities last month asked the authors...

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"I was never able to eat"

21. January 2012 stand 01: 54 GMT Muhammad's rare condition is assumed that impact on 12 to 15 eighteen-year-old Mohammed Miah children in the UK has never been able to eat.While many people try less after the excesses of the festive season food, not Muhammad himself drinking tap water."The water be boiled or are mineral water has otherwise my stomach do not like." "My stomach is very sensitive."A serious bowel condition means that he had to rely on artificial feeding since birth.His meals in liquid...

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Dogs ' higher Lyme disease risk "

25. January 2012 stand 00: 45 GMT by Michelle Roberts Health Reporter, BBC News ticks Lyme disease can transfer to humansTicks that can transmit Lyme disease may be more common in the United Kingdom as, say researchers who have found them refuge like many dogs.Experts have suspected since some a growing problem with these little pests - rates of the disease in recent years was cringing have time that the UK has.In the year 2010 was 953 reported cases in England and Wales.Now, after I is samples to more than 3,500 dogs Bristol University experts suspect the problem even bigger.14.9% Had the 3.534...

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Depression drugs ‘causing falls’

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 19 January 2012 Last updated at 01:21 GMT Falls are the leading cause of accidental death in the over-65s Elderly people with dementia are more likely to suffer falls if they are given anti-depressants by care home staff, a study claims.Many dementia patients also suffer from depression and drugs known as selective serotonin uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are frequently prescribed.But the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology reports that the risk of...

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Hospitals write foreign debt

25 January 2012 stand 20: 34 GMT by Jane Bradley studies producer, BBC London in total, £ 7. 6 m comes out of 33 NHS trusts in the region, since 2009Hospitals have learned written off until 96% of what they not entitled to free NHS care are due from foreign patients, has London BBC London.A freedom of information request showed that Newham wrote hospital trust all but 4% which it had been last year into account.The hospital trust said that it was too heavy to costs be recovered, if foreign patients...

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Injured veterans star in play about war's lingering effects

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 22 January 2012 Last updated at 09:05 GMT The show's actors have all been injured themselves On a brightly-lit stage at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, two young men are comparing their injuries, and trading good-natured jibes. One has lost two legs, the other 'only' one. The men are not actors, but still serving in the armed forces, and their wounds are all too real. Marine Cassidy Little and Rifleman Daniel Shaw, an infanteer from 4 Rifles, are just...

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Stem cell excitement but way to go

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 24 January 2012 Last updated at 10:53 GMT After more than a decade of waiting, the first results of a trial involving human embryonic stem cells have been published in a medical journal.The Lancet reports how two women in the USA with eye disease were injected with stem cells and both apparently showed some slight improvement in vision. The company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) says the patients are doing well four months on from the trial.This is...

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Forderung nach mehr Demenz Wissenschaftler

25 January 2012 stand 07: 46 GMT Prof Julie Williams said money attracts experts requires the lead scientific advisor of charity Alzheimer's more experts are Research UK required has said, to understand the causes of dementia are working.Professor securing University Cardiff Julie Williams warns a report that Britain's dementia knowledge base in danger is, lost without funding.The report, defeat dementia, is started on the Commons.Prof Williams said that reach high scientists are necessary to the...

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Pressure building over NHS plans

AppId is over the quotaAppId is over the quota 24 January 2012 Last updated at 10:23 GMT By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News The health bill is working its way through Parliament Pressure is building on ministers over the NHS reforms in England after a critical report by MPs has added to the mounting concerns.The health select committee report said the overhaul was hindering the ability of the NHS to make the savings it needs to safeguard its future.It comes ahead of a meeting this week...

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