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The numbers are startling: Every 53 seconds someone in the United States suffers a stroke, and someone dies from one every 3.3 minutes. Strokes afflict a half million people each year, killing about a third of them and disabling another 200,000, according to the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.
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When Deborah Marcom's son Trevor was 3, she spent an anxious week waiting for the results of a medical test. With a persistent cough, frequent bouts of flu and a general lack of energy, doctors suspected the boy had cystic fibrosis. Instead, the diagnosis was asthma.
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The trick with asthma is catching it early, especially in the very young. More than half the cases in kids under 5 go undiagnosed, and untreated asthma can make the condition worse.
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As an actor who hustles to a dozen television and film auditions a week, John Lehr doesn't have much time for the chest-press machine, the leg-curl gizmo or any of the many other weight-training contraptions at his West Hollywood health club. But neither can Lehr afford to skip the gym altogether.
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Geriatric care managers, members of a relatively new specialty, coordinate services that can help older people stay in their homes for as long as possible. For families considering such help, though, finding the right help and weighing the options can be daunting. Here are some tips:
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Lily Hearst is nearly 103 years old. All her life she has been healthy and active -- skiing, skating, canoeing. The Berkeley, California, centenarian makes it a point to swim every day. She also continues to teach piano, to advanced students only, at the senior center where she eats lunch each day.
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When Sharon Miles' elderly mother grew frail a dozen years ago in Albuquerque, mother and daughter had a problem.
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Here's some news that may send you back to that hated yoga class for some intensive deep breathing exercises. According to a study published Monday in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, those among us who have what is diplomatically referred to as
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Every few years, a new class takes the fitness world by storm. In the late '80s Jane Fonda and her ponytail-bobbing, leg-warmer-wearing aerobics classes were all the rage. In the early '90s, the step bench was introduced and heart-pounding step aerobics quickly became the yardstick by which all other sweat-and-spandex endeavors were measured.
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To join or not to join? To stay in my own home or move to a retirement community? That is the question I faced, when, like so many of us oldies, I found myself alone and ailing after my husband died.
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Nothing can be more frightening than feeling as if you can't breathe. And that is exactly what happens during a severe asthma attack. While a sudden, unexplained attack often leads to a trip to the emergency room -- where asthma is then diagnosed -- persistent symptoms, such as coughing and wheezing, should tip off a parent or doctor to test for the disease.
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The summer before freshman year of high school is usually carefree and easy -- a time of fun before focusing on homework and meeting new friends. Probably the last thing on a teenage girl's mind is going through labor. That certainly held true for Cassandra, then almost 15.
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Once a teenager becomes pregnant, there are no easy choices: Abortion, adoption or teenage parenthood all come at significant emotional, spiritual, financial and physical costs.
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For the first eight months of his life, Matthew cried 18 hours a day.
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Very few of us are breathing easy these days. That grim news comes courtesy of an American Lung Association study, released Tuesday, that rates the air quality in cities across the nation -- and hands failing grades to nearly half. Those receiving F's include a broad cluster of California cities, as well as many other, less predictable metropolitan areas like Birmingham, Ala., and Wilmington, Del....
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An age-old measure of circulatory health has been turned on its head. On Thursday, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute issued an advisory for health care providers who take patients' blood pressure: Watch the top number more than the bottom one. That's a reversal of conventional wisdom, which dictated that the bottom figure, for diastolic pressure, was the more important indicator of bloo...
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If there was ever a drug in need of a public relations overhaul, it's thalidomide. And now, thanks to recommendations aired this weekend at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, the long-reviled pharmaceutical could be headed back into the medical spotlight. Researchers testing thalidomide's efficacy as a cancer-fighting agent have reaffirmed the drug's potency, urging its con...
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When she'd tried two different health clubs in Anchorage, Alaska, Joan Pirone never quite felt comfortable working out. She worried about wearing the right clothes and felt too intimidated to venture into the free-weight room.
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Review of efforts to combat global AIDS epidemic
Lott says AIDS not threat to U.S. security
'Numbers of people dying is quite severe'
AIDS and government instability
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The California Medical Association is suing the state's three largest for-profit health insurers, claiming they have forced doctors to provide less-than-adequate care to patients.
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The cancer risks from exposure to dioxins may be significantly greater than previously thought, at least for a small segment of the population, according to a draft report by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has
approved the use of saline breast implants made by Mentor Corp. and McGhan Medical -- the first time the FDA has formally approved any brands of saline breast implant.
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- 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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- 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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