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The first instinct after having a heart attack may be to take it a little easy, but research published Wednesday suggests that could be a big mistake.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/02/heart.rest.reut/index.html
When someone comes down with influenza, giving the inhalant zanamivir to other family members can cut their risk of coming down with the flu by up to 72 percent, according to a study financed by the drug's maker, Glaxo Wellcome.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/02/flu.medicine.reut/index.html
A number of major drug store chains are pulling dozens of over-the-counter cold remedies and diet pills from their shelves after the government warned that an ingredient could cause hemorrhagic strokes, especially in young women.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/07/drug.warning.ap/index.html
The Dutch government Monday pledged around $100 million over five years to support international work to improve availability of vaccines to children threatened by diseases such as hepatitis B.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/11/20/vaccine.dutch.reut/index.html
Feeling depressed? Lonely? Stressed? A new study finds those feelings won't affect your chance of having a heart attack.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/02/heart.stress.reut/index.html
CNN.com - Health - Experimental technique uses lasers to shrink uterine fibroids - November 28, 2000
Experimental technology that uses lasers to heat and shrink uterine fibroids is showing promise in helping women avoid hysterectomies or other surgery, doctors reported.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/11/28/zapping.fibroids.ap/index.html
A premature baby with a heart defect was fitted with what doctors say is the world's smallest pacemaker after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted doctors an exemption to use the experimental device.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/11/09/small.pacemaker.ap/index.html
The government approved Tuesday a new easier-to-use version of a standard AIDS drug that may ease patient complaints that the medicine is too hard to swallow.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/01/aids.drug.ap/index.html
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a treatment for people whose heart arteries begin narrowing again after they have been treated to widen the blood vessels.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/07/artery.narrowing.ap/index.html
Consumer advocates petitioned the government Wednesday to ban four types of needles and other medical equipment whose sharp tips can accidentally stick health workers, possibly spreading deadly infections.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/30/safer.needles.ap/index.html
If for some reason you miss getting your flu vaccine, there's now a backup: The government says taking a prescription pill every day during a flu outbreak can prevent the misery-inducing illness, too.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/21/flu.drug.ap/index.html
The first new type of drug in decades to treat the troubling skin disease eczema moved a step closer to market Thursday as the government's scientific advisers unanimously declared Protopic ointment effective for both adults and children.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/17/eczema.drug.ap/index.html
Citing a possible risk of stroke, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising people to stop taking over-the-counter cold medicines or appetite suppressants that contain phenylpropanolamine, or PPA. The regulatory agency also is asking drug manufacturers to discontinue use of the ingredient in products.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/06/ppa.02/index.html
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The Food and Drug Administration warned Americans Monday not to use dozens of over-the-counter cold remedies or appetite suppressants until their makers replace an ingredient that could cause hemorrhagic strokes, especially in young women.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/06/ppa.warning.ap/index.html
Harvard University's School of Public Health said Monday it received $25 million from Microsoft Corp.'s co-founder and chairman Bill Gates and his wife to study AIDS prevention in Nigeria.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/13/aids.gates.reut/index.html
A thrifty gene that helped cavemen survive food shortages appears to be a common underlying trigger of both obesity and diabetes, researchers reported Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/14/thrifty.gene.ap/index.html
Scientists said Wednesday they have used a new type of gene therapy to cure diabetes in mice and rats that could pave the way for new treatments for millions of people with the disease.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/23/science.diabetes.reut/index.html
The American Medical Association (AMA) Thursday urged grocery and drug stores and other distributors of flu vaccine to lend their precious supplies to doctors, nurses and health-care centers so the neediest people could get their shots first.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/03/health.vaccine.reut/index.html
Hundreds of elderly people waited in a line that stretched past shelves stacked with toilet paper and household cleansers and wound around the meat cases.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/06/flu.shots.ap/index.html
The jars of leftover AIDS medications Moses Alicea plucked from his stash of pill bottles and vials were bound for the dump. Alicea no longer uses them, and reselling them in the United States would be illegal.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/20/aids.drugs.haiti.ap/index.html
Symptoms such as memory loss and dizziness suffered by U.S. veterans with Gulf War syndrome can be correlated to specific areas of the brain where cells have died, probably from chemical exposure, researchers said on Monday.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/27/gulfwar.brain.reut/index.html
Two powerful health insurance associations are merging, forming a giant lobby that will speak with one voice as it fights against a patients' bill of rights and other government regulations.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/30/insurance.lobby.ap/index.html
Six years after President Clinton's failed attempt to provide health insurance to all Americans, groups that battled relentlessly over the issue proposed a program Monday to cover millions of the nation's uninsured.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/20/uninsured.ap/index.html
It's official -- the American Heart Association wants you to eat soy.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/14/heart.soy.reut/index.html
An Oregon company is recalling two brands of Chinese herbs because they may pose a serious health hazard: They were contaminated with a chemical that can destroy the kidneys.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/11/29/herb.recall.ap/index.html
Thousands of heart attacks and strokes in England could be prevented each year if more people were treated for high cholesterol levels, doctors said Friday.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/24/britain.cholesterol.reut/index.html
Protectors that fit over the knobby end of the thigh bone can cut the risk of breaking a hip by 84 percent, according to a study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
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About 5,000 patients die every year from infections they pick up in hospitals in England, a parliamentary report said Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/24/britain.hospital.deaths.reut/index.html
Every day, Suzanne Ben Aida pulls a tight elastic glove over her swollen right hand and arm, and every night she adds a swath of bandages. It's a battle to keep her arm from ballooning -- a legacy of breast cancer called lymphedema, which many patients aren't warned to expect and then, when it strikes, they struggle to find good care.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/11/28/lymphedema.care.ap/index.html
Doctors are talking more and more about evidence that inflammation has a direct link to heart disease, scientists reported this weekend.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/13/heart.inflammation/index.html
A 57-year-old woman underwent a surgical gamble Tuesday in which doctors planned to temporarily remove her heart, cut out a pair of rapidly growing tumors and return the repaired organ.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/14/heart.removal.ap/index.html
The power of thought may be capable of moving robotic arms, according to researchers who hope one day to develop machines and robots as aids for paralyzed people.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/15/monkey.brain/index.html
Maybe the smoke is about to clear in the debate over medical marijuana.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/11/20/medical.marijuana.ap/index.html
Millions of Americans in employer-based health plans can demand speedier decisions on their health claims and will have more time to appeal rejected coverage under new Clinton administration rules issued by the Labor Department.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/21/healthcare.appeals.ap/index.html
The AIDS virus uses a protein complex that does housekeeping chores inside cells to spread disease to other cells of the body, researchers say.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/11/21/hiv.blocker.ap/index.html
Laughter may indeed be the best medicine, researchers said Wednesday as they released a study showing that people who report that they laugh more are less likely to have heart disease.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/15/heart.laughter.reut/index.html
A Louisiana man who may have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain-wasting disease during surgery is suing the university hospital where his operation was performed, his attorney said on Wednesday.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/30/health.brain.reut/index.html
CNN.com - Health - Love makes you light up -- even in your brain, researchers say - November 8, 2000
When you're in love, your eyes light up, your face lights up -- and, apparently, so do four tiny bits of your brain.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/08/love.in.lights.ap/index.html
People taking low-dose aspirin to prevent heart problems still have an increased risk of stomach bleeding, British doctors said Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/10/aspirin.stomach.reut/index.html
By Troy Goodman
CNN.com Health Writer
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Malaria rates are climbing in poor countries that have stopped using the pesticide DDT to control the deadly disease, a tropical diseases expert warned on Tuesday.
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Teen-age marijuana use has dropped for a third straight year, but a jump in the use of the
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Doctors have been successful in separating conjoined twins -- a process under the spotlight after a high-profile operation in Britain this month -- due to improvements in diagnostic, imaging and surgical techniques, experts said Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/11/17/conjoined.twins.reut/index.html
Harvard University and the University of California, San Francisco, hope to lure doctors back into the classroom by paying them enough to offset the time they spend away from patients.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/27/teaching.doctors.ap/index.html
At least three million people drink arsenic-tainted well water in Bangladesh and another 77 million are exposed to the poisoning, according to an international seminar held Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/09/bangladesh.arsenic.ap/index.html
The season for feasting is fast approaching, but doctors advise restraint at the dinner table. While an occasional splurge is OK for young, healthy people, they say, overindulgence could put some others at risk for a heart attack.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/11/22/heart.eating/index.html
Women with high levels of hemoglobin in their blood early in pregnancy run an increased risk of stillbirths, a study suggests, offering a possible clue to a tragedy that often has no known cause.
http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/11/22/stillbirths.ap/index.html
CNN.com - Health - More geriatric psychiatrists needed for nursing home patients - November 14, 2000
It's Dr. Allan Anderson's weekly visit to the nursing home's special dementia unit, and problems await: Someone hit a nurse. One woman abruptly pinches another patient's face and yells curses. Another breaks into loud, gasping sobs for no apparent reason. Agitation keeps still others awake all night.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/11/14/nursing.home.psychiatrists.ap/index.html
Eagerly awaited test results on a much-publicized new cancer drug designed to stop tumors by cutting off their blood supply indicate the medication is safe and show promising signs it may help control the disease.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/11/09/newcancer.drug.ap/index.html
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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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