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http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/28/aids.worldbank.reut/index.html
A predecessor of HIV, the virus that has killed millions, may have been around in humans as early as the 17th century, according to international researchers.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/24/aids.origins.reut/index.html
It's no surprise for many women -- new research suggests men listen with only one side of their brain, while women use both.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/28/brain.listening/index.html
The pharmaceutical company Glaxo Wellcome withdrew Lotronex, its drug for irritable bowel syndrome, on Tuesday under pressure from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The action followed reports of five deaths and numerous other problems linked to the drug.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/11/29/lotronex.pulled/index.html
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/29/ebola.profile/index.html
Deborah Jones, the infectious disease nurse at a nursing home in Stockbridge, Michigan, is worried. None of her patients has received flu shots, and the flu season's coming. Every year, influenza kills tens of thousands of people, most of them old and frail, just like her residents.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/10/flu.vaccine/index.html
Researchers touted a genetic test that can help predict whether brain tumor patients will respond to chemotherapy, in a study released Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/11/08/genetic.cancer/index.html
Women who have polycystic ovary syndrome may also have a higher risk of heart disease, according to a new study.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/11/10/pcos.atherosclerosis/index.html
New research on rats has given scientists intriguing clues suggesting that long-term exposure to environmental toxins might contribute to the development of Parkinson's disease.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/05/parkinsons.pesticide/index.html
New research on rats has given scientists intriguing clues suggesting that long-term exposure to environmental toxins might contribute to the development of Parkinson's disease.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/06/diabetes.atlas/index.html
Eating fruits and veggies is definitely good for you, researchers say, but does little to protect people from colon and rectal cancer.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/01/veggies.cancer/index.html
Every year, more Californians are learning that it's a bad idea to smoke. And a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that it's paying off in lower rates of lung cancer.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/11/30/lung.cancer/index.html
Two Republicans introduced legislation Tuesday
that would tighten controls over who can provide patients with the abortion
pill that won federal approval last September.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/01/uganda.ebola/index.html
SmithKline Beecham Plc has circulated misleading information about its diabetes drug Avandia and its use by people with liver impairment, U.S. regulators charged in a letter made public on Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/01/smithkline.fda.reut/index.html
Two Republicans introduced legislation Tuesday
that would tighten controls over who can provide patients with the abortion
pill that won federal approval last September.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/29/ebola.feig/index.html
Several studies released Tuesday show that women are most vulnerable to putting on pounds at puberty, after pregnancy and after menopause, giving doctors new information to help reduce obesity among females.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/11/01/women.obesity.reut/index.html
After years of legal and ethical debate, Danco
Laboratories began shipping orders of the abortion pill Mifeprex, more commonly known as RU-486, to U.S. facilities Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/11/20/abortion.pill/index.html
After years of legal and ethical debate, Danco
Laboratories began shipping orders of the abortion pill Mifeprex, more commonly known as RU-486, to U.S. facilities Monday.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/11/21/abortion.pill/index.html
After years of legal and ethical debate, Danco
Laboratories began shipping orders of the abortion pill Mifeprex, more commonly known as RU-486, to U.S. facilities Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/21/abortion.pill/index.html
Popping vitamins does little to lower high cholesterol and the risk of heart disease, researchers reported on Monday, but adding one vitamin -- niacin -- multiplies the effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/11/14/heart.niacin.reut/index.html
A Canadian AIDS activist who once tried to auction his corpse on eBay and whose HIV-infected blood was used in a series of paintings has turned to the Internet in a radical approach to raise awareness of his deadly disease. Richard Hollingsworth hopes round-the-clock Webcasts of his home life with wife Phyllis and his five stepchildren will demystify AIDS and encourage people to learn.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/23/bc.health.canada.aids.reut/index.html
The AIDS epidemic sweeping Africa is not only killing millions of people and tearing apart families -- it is also crippling economic growth in a continent that is already the world's poorest.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/28/aids.africa.economy.reut/index.html
A form of the herpes virus that causes an AIDS-related skin cancer appears to spread through kissing.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/08/kissing.virus.ap/index.html
Airlines have been told they should issue health warnings with their tickets to inform passengers of the dangers of a potentially fatal condition which could strike during flights.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/22/airtravel.thrombosis/index.html
The American Academy of Pediatrics called Monday for state legislatures to pass laws regulating the use of snowmobiles by children because they pose a
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/11/07/snowmobile.guidelines/index.html
Many Medicare beneficiaries are not getting the treatment they should be receiving, such as a regular mammogram for breast cancer survivors and annual vision tests for diabetics, a study found.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/11/08/undertreated.medicare.ap/index.html
A ventilation system in a seaside building may host the bacteria that has infected at least 33 people with Legionnaires' disease in Barcelona, health officials said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/17/spain.legionaires.ap/index.html
A baby girl born three months premature, measuring 10 inches long and weighing 12 ounces, went home from the hospital Wednesday -- a rare survival for a child so tiny.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/11/09/super.preemie.ap/index.html
Banana producers can claim that their fruit reduces the risk of blood pressure and stroke because they contain potassium and are low in sodium, an industry group said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/02/banana.health.reut/index.html
Bayer AG, Germany's biggest drugmaker, said Tuesday it will join the search for new AIDS treatments as part of a shakeup of its drug research activities.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/21/bayer.aids.ap/index.html
The industrialized world and particularly Group of Seven nations should do more to address the double scourge of AIDS and heavy foreign debt crippling southern Africa, Botswana President Festus Mogae said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/15/aids.botswana.reut/index.html
At least four California counties have exhausted their supplies of flu vaccine, forcing them to cancel flu clinics. Long lines of senior citizens formed outside the clinics in counties that still had vaccine available.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/10/california.flu/index.html
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has approved a program that will allow a northern California county to give away government-grown marijuana to 60 AIDS patients in a study to assess drug's potential health benefits.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/11/24/pot.study.ap/index.html
CNN.com - Health - Cell treatment could help doctors make old hearts young again - November 12, 2000
People suffering heart problems associated with old age and heart attacks may soon get relief with a new cell therapy that may rejuvenate damaged hearts.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/12/heart.repair/index.html
Central Burundi's worst malaria epidemic in living memory has claimed up to 300 lives in the last two weeks and local hospitals have become swamped as the killer disease spreads, doctors in the area said Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/03/burundi.malaria.reut/index.html
One in 20 Britons is an alcoholic and the government must step in urgently to stamp out the abuse, a charity said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/08/britain.alcohol.reut/index.html
As many as 21 children became infected with E. coli during a visit to a petting zoo, health officials say.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/11/08/ecoli.farm.ap/index.html
An outbreak of cholera has killed 33 people in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal since mid-August, health authorities said on Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/13/safrica.cholera.reut/index.html
Nearly half of Americans suffer at least one chronic disease, everything from allergies to heart disease -- 20 million more than doctors had anticipated this year, researchers say.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/30/chronic.illness.ap/index.html
Twenty-three members of a Pennsylvania church group were infected with a potentially serious fungal disease during a trip to Mexico to help build a church, government researchers said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/10/fungal.infection.ap/index.html
CNN.com - Health - Cloning technology for babies unacceptable, ethics group says - November 13, 2000
Using current cloning technology to help infertile couples have babies would be premature and thus unethical, a top U.S. reproductive ethics advisory group said on Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/13/cloning.ethics.reut/index.html
Elk and deer hunters in Colorado and Wyoming have been alerted to a fatal brain disease found in the big game similar to mad cow disease, but officials said no evidence exists the disease is transmitted to humans.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/01/health.hunting.reut/index.html
Employees of Ford Motor Co. and parts maker Visteon Corp. will be able to get onsite child care 24 hours a day at unique family centers being built around the country under a partnership between the companies and the United Auto Workers.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/11/21/bc.ford.childcare.ap/index.html
Using computers to double-check mammograms can increase the detection of cancers by 20 percent, according to a study that supports early predictions for the new technology.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/11/28/mammogram.recheck.ap/index.html
Toys are safer than in previous years, but hazardous toys still can be found on store shelves, according to an annual report issued by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/11/21/toy.safety.ap/index.html
Producers of the anti-impotence drug Viagra could face competition from rival products after a British court ruling.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/08/london.viagra/index.html
The number of new Ebola cases in Uganda is declining but four more people died in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll from an outbreak of the deadly virus in the East African nation to 96, a health official said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/08/uganda.ebola.ap/index.html
A 57-year-old woman underwent a surgical gamble Tuesday in which doctors temporarily removed her heart, cut out three rapidly growing tumors and returned the repaired organ.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/14/bc.med.heartremoval.ap/index.html
An 8-month-old Mexican boy was recovering in a Houston hospital Friday after a team of doctors transplanted nerves from his mother's legs into his lifeless left arm.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/17/nervetransplant.ap/index.html
CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) - Using one's finger to clean the clogged nozzle of a spray paint gun can cause a serious infection that might lead to amputation of the finger, according to a report released Monday.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/28/bc.health.paint.reut/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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