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Inside Health

Gender X; Diabetes diagnosis; Trigeminal Neuralgia; Oesophageal cancer

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As Germany becomes the first country in Europe to pass a law allowing newborn babies to be registered as being of indeterminate sex - neither male nor female - should the UK follow suit?

The incapacitating facial pain that feels like an electric shock - a world expert explains Trigeminal Neuralgia.

And recurrent indigestion - should more be done to investigate the millions of people troubled with heartburn?

Plus a new test for diagnosing diabetes that's causing some confusion.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:21.7

quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Ria

0:26.5

I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC

0:32.2

Sounds. Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health.

0:37.7

I hope you enjoy it.

0:39.3

Coming up today, heartburn, should we be doing more to investigate the millions of people in the UK troubled by recurrent indigestion?

0:47.3

I meet a surgeon who thinks we should.

0:49.7

A pain in the face.

0:51.4

You dread every meal.

0:53.5

You can't actually eat. You have to puree your food and just put it in, sort of shove it in with the face. You dread every meal. You can't actually eat. You have to puree your food and

0:56.1

just put it in, sort of shove it in with a teaspoon at one side. Because the chewing action

1:00.3

just triggers. Absolutely. So just dropping your head down to read, that can trigger it off. I mean,

1:06.2

it's just unbelievable. It seriously impedes your life. We answer a listener's query about trigeminal neuralgia with a little help from a world expert.

1:17.1

And diagnosing diabetes, we take a closer look at a new diagnostic test that's causing some

1:22.5

confusion, not least among GPs like me. But we start with news that Germany has become the first country in Europe

1:29.2

to allow newborn babies to be registered as being of indeterminate sex,

1:34.6

neither male nor female.

1:36.6

And it's a move that's been welcomed by Inside Health's Margaret McCartney,

1:40.2

who's on the line from our studio in Glasgow.

1:42.4

Margaret, how common is it for a newborn baby

1:45.3

to neither obviously be a boy nor a girl?

1:48.6

Yeah, I mean, it is far more common, I think,

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