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On vacation in San Francisco a few years ago, Mary Duffy, a 45-year-old writer, thought she'd give a circuit training class a try. At one point, the class required her to jump on a mini-trampoline.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/06/sports.injuries.wmd/index.html
Two years ago, actress Kellie Martin's 19-year-old sister Heather suddenly began to suffer from fatigue, an odd skin rash and a slew of unexplainable health problems. Her symptoms stumped doctor after doctor. The physicians diagnosed her with one illness, then a different one, then yet another, as Heather's friends and family watched the formerly healthy teen become gravely ill.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/04/autoimmune.disease.wmd/index.html
Curiosity overpowered hunger as I arrived at Organica restaurant, an unconventional member of San Francisco's eclectic range of culinary offerings. There's no place for a stove at Organica. Vegan dishes -- containing no meat, fish, eggs or dairy -- made of raw, organic foods fill the menu, which includes much more than just celery sticks and kidney beans.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/27/raw.veggies.wmd/index.html
I tell you, it's hard to keep a stiff upper lip these days. First my high-tech dot-com portfolio plummets. Then it turns out that my beloved cell phone may be zapping my delicate cranium with radioactive waves. And now, to top it all off, the Prozac that keeps me from murdering my coworkers is under attack, this time by recently unemployed talk therapists. It's as if everything that seemed so prom...
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/18/prozac7_18.a.tm/index.html
When patients come to psychologist Norman B. Schmidt, Ph.D., complaining of panic attacks, one question he asks is, Do you drink coffee? And, by chance, does your anxiety strike shortly after you drink coffee, say, in the morning on the way to work?
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/07/java.jive.wmd/index.html
You've put in a 55-hour week, your pantry is bare, your laundry is piling up and you can't find a sitter for your 5-year-old.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/31/work.stress.wmd/index.html
When 10-year-old Amanda Mellencamp recently awoke in the middle of the night complaining of a tummy ache, her mother Ann didn't offer her Pepto-Bismol or simply invite her to snuggle up. Instead, she made a rather unorthodox suggestion:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/07/03/mind.body.wmd/index.html
Dr. Kristianna Matthewis can't see whether her patients look pale or if their eyes have a healthy sparkle.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/27/blind.doctor/index.html
Marshall Klavan is living his worst nightmare. Once a prominent Philadelphia physician, today he lives in a nursing home, unable to speak, communicate or make decisions for himself. He spends his days in a wheelchair, paralyzed on the right side of his body. He is, in short, the sort of helpless person he feared becoming when he signed a living will years earlier, forbidding doctors to resuscitate...
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/28/living.will.wmd/index.html
More than 200 ailing New Yorkers have been tested this year for the potentially deadly West Nile virus, without a single positive result, the state Health Department said.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/19/virus.testing.ap/index.html
First, parents clamored for the hormone secretin in hopes it would help their autistic children. Put to the test, however, secretin is proving disappointing.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/07/18/autism.ap/index.html
A Boston child was being tested in a hospital on Thursday for the West Nile virus, hospital officials said, one day after state health officials revealed they had discovered first signs of the virus in Massachusetts.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/27/westnile.boy.reut/index.html
A Boston hospital claims a pharmaceutical company is trying to steal credit for a tumor-starving drug by scheming to make it appear that it was the hospital that pilfered the drug.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/07/19/cancerdrug.lawsuit.ap/index.html
Murderers and other people prone to violence have distinct brain patterns that can be scanned and that might be changed with drugs and other therapies, researchers said on Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/27/violent.brains.reut/index.html
A medication used in the treatment of a skin disease can help smokers who are trying to end their nicotine addiction, Canadian researchers reported Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/26/nicotene.urge/index.html
Sigmoidoscopy, the most widely used fiber-optic screening exam for colon cancer, is likely to miss diseased growths as much as one-third of the time, researchers say in a study that could lead to wider use of a more thorough method, colonoscopy.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/07/20/coloncancerscreening.ap/index.html
Over half of black parents place their babies to sleep on their stomachs or sides, putting them at greater risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/07/19/suddeninfantdeath.ap/index.html
Ever wonder what you are taking when you see
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/07/27/supplement.ingredients.reut/index.html
People who look for sex partners online may be at higher risk for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS, than those who meet each other in a more conventional way, a new study suggests.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/25/online.sex/index.html
A drug already used to treat a variety of lung diseases and overdoses of painkiller medicines has been found to prevent the kidney damage that sometimes occurs when chemicals are injected into the body to enhance the clarity of X-rays and CAT scans.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/20/health.tests.kidney.reut/index.html
Ecstasy, the amphetamine-like drug made popular by
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/25/ecstasy.brain.reut/index.html
Some 97 million American adults, or 55 percent, are considered overweight or obese.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/24/obesity.glance.ap/index.html
A U.S. advisory panel Friday endorsed making a widely used antibiotic the first government-approved drug for fighting infection from the deadly
biological agent anthrax in the wake of a future terrorist attack.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/28/health.anthrax.reut/index.html
Americans frustrated with their hearing aids may soon get to try a new surgical implant to help them hear better.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/21/hearing.implant.ap/index.html
People who suffer chronic heel pain, a particular bane of athletes, may soon get a new therapy: sound waves.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/21/heelpain.ap/index.html
As activists praise a federal judge's decision clearing the way for an Oakland club to distribute marijuana for medicinal purposes, Wayne Johnson hopes it will help him avoid the risk of buying it on the street.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/07/18/medical.marijuana.ap/index.html
A California biotechnology firm that hopes to turn the map of the human genome into useful drugs said Wednesday it will build a facility at a U.S. laboratory to take advantage of the lab's powerful X-rays.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/26/science.genome.reut/index.html
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed suit Thursday charging Rexall Sundown Inc., which was recently acquired by Numico NV , with making false and unsubstantiated claims in marketing its dietary supplement Cellasene.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/21/health.rexall.reut/index.html
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given Johns Hopkins University a five-year, $20 million grant to study if inexpensive vitamin and mineral pills can help save lives in poor countries.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/25/gates.vitamins.ap/index.html
New genetic tests have made the nation's blood supply safer, allowing donation banks to detect viral infections sooner and keep them from slipping into transfusions, scientists said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/19/infections.blood.ap/index.html
The Justice Department will appeal a court ruling that cleared the way for an Oakland club to distribute marijuana for medicinal purposes, according to documents filed Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/26/medical.marijuana.ap/index.html
In the past eight years, Americans age 65 and older have watched their prescription drug costs double, with prices expected to more than double again in the next 10 years, a health care advocacy group said.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/07/31/seniors.drugs.ap/index.html
Children love teen horror flicks, shoot-'em up interactive video games, hard-core rock and rap and risque television.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/07/26/children.violence.ap/index.html
If you think people in their 20s and 30s don't have to worry about their cholesterol, think again.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/19/youthfulcholesterol.ap/index.html
Heroin addicts would have a new option for treatment -- a drug that can be prescribed by doctors instead of costly inpatient methadone treatments -- under a measure approved Wednesday by the House.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/20/herointreatment.ap/index.html
Kevin Concannon, Maine's top health administrator, says he knew drug prices were too high when elderly people from his state began taking buses to Canada to buy medicine.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/07/best.hospitals/index.html
Bruce Chutter-Cressy is a health food nut. He eats carob instead of chocolate. Brown rice instead of white. Rice cakes instead of potato chips.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/07/30/healthy.shopping.ap/index.html
A coalition of managed care firms said they have a plan to get rid of some of the administrative hassles that their businesses often create for patients and doctors.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/19/hmo.hassles.ap/index.html
Nearly seven of 10 U.S. women 50 and older say they have had mammograms in the past two years, statistics released Wednesday showed.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/07/27/mammogram.rate.reut/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/25/west.nile.02/index.html
The discovery of two more dead birds infected with the West Nile virus prompted New York City on Sunday to expand its battle against disease-carrying mosquitoes.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/24/westnile.virus.ap/index.html
Insecticide spraying is planned in the New York City area this week after health officials found mosquitoes carrying the potentially deadly West Nile virus in the region for the first time this year.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/18/west.nile.virus.02/index.html
A cold-like virus may cause obesity, new experiments suggest.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/28/fat.virus.ap/index.html
Americans are trying to quit smoking four times more often than they did in the years before the introduction of nicotine gum, patches and other products that help people kick the habit, the government reported Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/28/quitting.smoking.ap/index.html
The manufacturer of a widely used snakebite serum is warning of shortages of the drug.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/19/snake.serum.shortage.ap/index.html
Traci Fries never dreamed that by helping to keep her baby safe from crib death she was contributing to a separate and growing medical problem.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/07/30/flat.headedbabies.ap/index.html
The discovery of two more dead birds infected with the West Nile virus prompted New York City on Sunday to expand its battle against disease-carrying mosquitoes.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/25/west.nile.01/index.html
The simple act of taking a walk is something most people take for granted. But for people like Linda Briones, who suffers chronic pain from a degenerative spinal disc disease, even that minimal amount of effort can be excruciating.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/07/27/chronic.pain/index.html
Many nursing homes are so understaffed they may be endangering the welfare of their patients, according to a new report by federal health officials.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/07/24/nursing.homes.ap/index.html
The United States plans to offer sub-Saharan African nations $1 billion in annual loans to pay for American AIDS drugs and medical services, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/07/19/us.africa.aids.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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