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http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/08/02/arthritis.study\\%5d.reut/index.html
It could be months before Britain's Parliament decides officially whether to relax its ban on cloning human embryos, but Wednesday's report that it may do so freshened global debate.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/17/embryo.reax/index.html
Nan Highstreet's pregnancy seemed to be going smoothly. But a routine exam at six months revealed that her cervix was starting to dilate. One week later, Nan woke up in a puddle. Her water had broken, threatening her baby's life.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/08/16/preterm.risk.wmd/index.html
Attorney Robert Tesky and high school senior Ryan Dinkgrave have one thing in common that defines their lives: Type 1 diabetes. The difference is Tesky believes he is cured, while Dinkgrave wonders if the treatment that helped Tesky -- islet cell transplantation -- will ever be available to him.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/14/diabetes.difference.wmd/index.html
Bad tickers ran in Joseph Calbreath's family, so at age 73 the retired Air Force pilot and hydraulics specialist opted for a stress test. One test led to another. His doctors told him he did indeed have a problem: a blockage in the coronary arteries supplying blood to his left ventricle, the main pump of his heart. They told him what he needed to fix it: heart bypass surgery.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/08/10/surgery.risk.wmd/index.html
Every Tuesday and Thursday just before dawn, a perky blond woman jounces along a trail in Marin County, California, the beam of her headlamp skittering over rocks as a gasping group of seven tries to keep up. Across the country in Chicago, as the sun rises, another group runs in army-style pairs, chanting as they go.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/08/outdoor.workouts.wmd/index.html
Gray hair, creaky joints and wrinkled skin are inevitable as we grow older. But what if you could delay the onset of the infirmities that often come with aging? You could challenge white-water rapids in a raft alongside your grandchildren. And you'd probably never have to exchange your treadmill for a walker.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/11/aging.diet.wmd/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/08/01/cancer.gene.therapy/index.html
While headaches may seem like a minor annoyance to some people, they pose a major problem for millions of Americans. One in 10 Americans suffers from migraine headaches. Nearly twice that many -- some 45 million -- get some kind of headaches.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/14/headache.redux/index.html
The news that Arizona Senator John McCain has been diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, brings the grim statistics about the disease into glaring public focus.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/08/16/melanoma.explainer/index.html
Doug Ferrari is quite possibly one of the funniest people around. By all accounts, his name should have been up in lights, one of the biggest talents on the comedy stage. But an insidious form of mental illness stepped in instead, and Ferrari wound up on skid row.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/29/newsstand.ferrari/index.html
After working a 12-hour shift as a labor and delivery nurse, some women would seek stress relief in an aerobics class or a long, hot bath. Nancy Cole, a 53-year-old nurse and mother of two who lives in Laguna Beach, California, prefers to climb a Jeffrey pine, nestle her face into the jigsaw bark and inhale the butterscotch aroma.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/22/tree.climb.wmd/index.html
After Cheryl Burnett's dentist treated her infected tooth with penicillin, Burnett, who owns a pet store in Irwin Lake, California, got an idea. The next time a tooth acted up, she bypassed her dentist and took penicillin intended for fish.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/25/veterinary.medications.wmd/index.html
A drug widely used to treat osteoporosis in women appears to be equally effective in men who have the disease, according to a study.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/men/08/31/osteoporosis.drug/index.html
Researchers have discovered a new way of creating brain stem cells, the cells experts hope may heal spinal cord damage or brain diseases like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/15/brain.stemcell/index.html
On a political hot potato scale of one to 10, embryonic stem cell registers about a 13. Inextricably linked not only to the abortion debate, but also to patients' rights advocacy and the esoteric world of research science, the issue never fails to spark passionate, even hysterical, debate.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/24/embryo8_23.a.tm.tm/index.html
A substantial number of crib deaths take place in day care settings, where caretakers may be less likely know the importance of putting babies to sleep on their backs, according to a new study.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/08/07/sids/index.html
By Michele Dula Baum
CNN.com Health and Food Writer
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/18/working.wives/index.html
When Nona Bingham of Portland, Oregon, retired from her job as a supermarket clerk at age 65, she enrolled in oil painting and ceramic classes to keep busy.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/08/01/seniors.theater.wmd/index.html
For as long as he can remember, George Bliss, age 81, has been eating avocados morning, noon and night. A second-generation California avocado farmer, Bliss loves the fruits of his labor.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/15/avocado.health.wmd/index.html
Medical advances over the past 10 years have done much to increase the survivability of babies that are born too soon. Still, many of these most frail of infants continue to face severe challenges, a new study reveals.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/08/10/preemies.chance/index.html
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories has advised
physicians that patients should not use lots of Norplant birth control implants made since October 1999 because of questions about their effectiveness.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/08/17/norplant.warning.02/index.html
At 77, Jean Cotner is not the oldest person in her yoga class, but she's the most accomplished. Of course, you'd expect that of the teacher. A devout practitioner for over 30 years, her body is the best advertisement for her classes: She appears strong, flexible, and much younger than her years.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/17/yoga.benefits.wmd/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/04/your.health.cancer/index.html
A substantial number of crib deaths take place in day care settings, where caretakers may be less likely know the importance of putting babies to sleep on their backs, according to a new study.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/08/11/your.health.sids/index.html
A protein that switches fat cell formation on and off may help explain some of the causes of both obesity and the increasing flabbiness that comes with age, researchers said on Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/10/fat.protein.reut/index.html
A rare virus largely unknown in North America killed a 14-year-old girl and may be responsible for two more deaths since last year, according to California officials.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/04/newvirus.ap/index.html
Caesarean sections started dropping slowly in the early 1990s after an outcry that American women undergo too many -- but now they're on the rise again.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/08/29/rising.caesareans.ap/index.html
A sticky chemical that oozes from the plastic used in very old Barbie dolls and some other toys poses a potential health risk, according to an expert in the science of preservation.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/24/dangerous.doll.ap/index.html
Amid the tension of the emergency room, Dr. Edward Cornwell lectures a belligerent gang member who's been shot in the back -- even as he tries to save the young man's life.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/28/hopkins.tv.ap/index.html
Before Allen Parton met Endal, he could only mourn the life that a car accident had forever changed.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/10/super.dog/index.html
A dozen angry protesters accused the government of sex bias Thursday over legislation aimed at barring single women and lesbians from using in vitro fertilization to become pregnant.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/08/17/australia.pregnancy.ap/index.html
Measuring body fat is a more accurate way of telling if someone is unhealthily overweight than considering weight alone, experts said Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/08/29/health.fat.reut/index.html
The brains of people with a genetic risk for Alzheimer's have to work harder than normal to perform simple memory tasks long before any outward symptoms of the disease develop, a study suggests.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/08/17/predicting.alzheimers.ap/index.html
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said on Monday that U.S. regulators have given it approval to sell the first prescription medicine for inhibiting the growth of unwanted facial hair in women, a twice-daily cream called Vaniqa.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/08/01/hair.drug.reut/index.html
A British parliamentarian will on Thursday be the first human to be injected with a new prototype vaccine against AIDS. Dr Evan Harris, a Liberal Democrat member of parliament, says he volunteered to take part in clinical trials because he believes an effective vaccination is the only way to combat the deadly disease.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/08/31/health.aids.reut/index.html
For men in France, obtaining a vasectomy has long been all but impossible, thanks to a 200-year-old Napoleonic law prohibiting self-mutilation.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/men/08/14/vasectomy.france.ap/index.html
Research into creating human cells and tissues for transplant could benefit from a government panel's recommendation to relax Britain's ban on cloning human embryos -- the first such action by a government anywhere.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/16/embryo.cloning.02/index.html
A panel of experts urged the government to allow human cloning for scientific study of transplants, a recommendation that, if approved, would make Britain the first country in the world to authorize human cloning for any purpose.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/16/embryo.cloning.ap/index.html
Leukemia cases among young British children are increasing and doctors suspect improved living standards could be the cause.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/08/04/britain.leukaemia.reut/index.html
Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican presidential nominee, Wednesday disputed a ruling from a federal judge who found that his state had not done enough to care for the 1.5 million low-income children in its Medicaid program.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/31/bush.medicaid/index.html
Caffeine in soft drinks -- which Americans drink more of than water -- is added to addict consumers, not to enhance flavor as soft drink manufacturers claim, researchers said on Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/14/health.caffeine.reut/index.html
People in England and Wales run a 40 percent risk of developing cancer, government figures released on Thursday showed.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/08/24/britain.cancer.reut/index.html
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the bacteria that causes cholera, a potentially fatal intestinal infection common in developing countries.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/02/stroke.explainer/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/28/smoking.ireland.reut/index.html
Consumers will be able to buy a less expensive, generic form of Prozac by next August after a federal court ruling dashed Eli Lilly and Co.'s hopes of extending the patent protection on its blockbuster anti-depressant.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/10/prozac.battle.ap/index.html
An apple a day may keep the oncologist away.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/08/30/cancer.foods/index.html
Taking the anti-cholesterol drug pravastatin may do more than ward off a heart attack, according to a study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/03/cholesterol.stroke.reut/index.html
President Bill Clinton on Tuesday said he had named Sandra Thurman as the presidential envoy for AIDS cooperation.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/08/15/aids.envoy.reut/index.html
There were 6,023 Americans who died from injuries at work last year, 32 fewer than in 1998 despite an increase in employment, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/08/18/workplace.deaths.ap/index.html
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Wikipedia-Article "Health"
- For the science of human and animal health, see Health science.
Defined negatively, health is the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. In any organism, health is a form of homeostasis. This is a state of balance, with inputs and outputs of energy and matter in equilibrium (allowing for growth). Health also implies good prospects for continued survival. In sentient creatures such as humans, health is a broader concept.
Many definitions of health have been offered from time to time. Webster's Dictionary defines health as "the condition of being sound in body, mind or spirit, especially freedom from physical disease or pain". The Oxford English Dictionary defines health as "soundness of body or mind; that condition in which its functions are duly and efficiently discharged". Dubos (1968) defined health as " a modus vivendi enabling imperfect men to achieve a rewarding and not-too-painful existance while they cope with an imperfect world".
However, the most widely accepted definition is that of the World Health Organization Constitution. It states that "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (World Health Organization, 1946). In more recent years, this statement has been amplified to include the ability to lead a "socially and economically productive life". The WHO definition is not without criticism, mainly that it is too broad. Some argue that health cannot be defined as a state at all, but must be seen as a process of continuous adjustment to the changing demands of living and of the changing meanings we give to life. It is a dynamic concept. the WHO definition is therefore considered by many as an idealistic goal rather than a realistic proposition. Using the WHO definition classifies 70-95% of people as unhealthy. In spite of the above limitations, the concept of health as defined by WHO is broad and positive in its implications. It sets out a high standard for positive health. It represents the overall goal that nations should strive to reach.
The most solid aspects of wellness that fit firmly in the realm of medicine are the environmental health, nutrition, disease prevention, and public health matters that can be investigated and assist in measuring well-being.
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See also
- Disease
- Health care
- Health disparities
- Health profession
- Healthcare delivery
- Healthy eating
- Longevity
- Medicine
- Mental health
- Natural Hygiene
- Nursing
- Physical fitness
- Population health
- Public health
- Sexuality
- Wellness (alternative medicine)
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Notes and references
- World Health Organization, Constitution, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1946. Available online at [http://w3.whosea.org/aboutsearo/pdf/const.pdf http://w3.whosea.org/Accessed October 24, 2005.
- WHO (1979)Health for All, Sr. Nos. 1, 2
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