Showing results for "Peter" in Sexual & Reproductive Health

An eminent scientist and pioneer in the discovery of retroviruses challenges the widely accepted belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Duesberg argues that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS. Sure to spark intense debate, this provocative book offers an original and incisive critique of the rise and fall of HIV.

No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. For some it was a time when music, fashion and drugs enabled young people to express their individuality and freedom, their hopes and dreams of a different, perhaps better, world. For others, the decade marked the advent of the permissive society, with its undermining of authority, family values and common decency. At the heart of this continuing controversy is sex.

The most valuable investment any society makes is in its children, the next generation. The more we learn about the fetus the better we are able to understand the problems and abnormalities that can occur during development. Dr. Peter Nathanielsz, the first to demonstrate that the fetal brain delivers the signals that start the process of birth, reviews the recent explosion of information on fetal development during the second half of pregnancy.

Omkring hvert 10. danske barn kommer til verden med hjælp fra lægerne, mens andre aldrig får de børn, de ønsker. Var manden mere opmærksom på sin sund­hed, ville flere børn blive undfanget - enten i dobbelt­sengen eller i fertilitetsklinikken, viser professor Peter Humaidans forskning og erfaringer. Som han siger: "Vi taler alt for lidt om sæd. Sæden er tabu. I behandlingen har vi i mange år undervurderet sæden" Det tager cirka tre måneder at skabe en sædcelle, så ændrer manden livsstil, påvirker det hurtigt sædceller­nes kvalitet.