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A tuberculosis outbreak at a South Carolina prison shows that safeguards are necessary to control the spread of illness in confined settings, government health officials said Wednesday.
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Doctors already know the more hours the elderly spend on the move and off their seats, the less likely they are to break a hip.
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Although many people who face painful, disabling terminal illness may consider actively ending their lives, few really try, a new study on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide suggests.
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Doctors who will perform what they say is groundbreaking surgery hope they can help an 8-month-old Mexican boy regain the use of his left arm by transplanting nerves removed from his mother's legs.
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By disguising one of its destructive proteins as
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Migraine sufferers should receive the drugs they need to quickly relieve the pain rather than waiting for graduated treatment to see what works, U.S. researchers said Tuesday.
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A Ugandan woman unwittingly spread a deadly Ebola epidemic after fleeing a hospital at the center of the outbreak in a desperate attempt to escape the virus, officials said Monday.
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Guidelines for British diabetics lay down the standard of treatment they should receive to avoid potentially fatal complications from the disease. An estimated 1.4 million people in Britain suffer from diabetes but many are not getting the best treatment. Another one million Britons have the disease but are not aware of it.
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Scientists should be allowed to use early human embryos in research to develop powerful new therapies, including cloning to derive stem cells, for a host of human diseases, British experts said Tuesday.
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The government said Thursday it will issue guidelines about offering fertility treatment through the state-funded National Health Service.
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Makers of fish oil supplements can claim evidence
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday again warned consumers not to take products marketed as dietary supplements that contain a dangerous thyroid hormone.
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Breast milk is considered babies' perfect food. Yet despite a decade of encouraging more U.S. mothers to breast-feed their infants, not enough do. And among black women, breast-feeding is
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The brain may have a
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A report from the Harvard Medical School released Tuesday estimated that people with diagnosable mental illness account for nearly 45 percent of the total cigarette market in the United States.
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A new and improved vaccine against tuberculosis might be ready for testing in people as early as next year, researchers said Wednesday.
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For the first time, a vaccine protected monkeys against the lethal Ebola virus, raising doctors' hopes of developing a means of inoculating people against the terrifying disease.
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Ever wanted to know when and where you could have an increased chance of catching bronchitis, pneumonia and other respiratory infections? Now there's a Web site that could help.
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Tuberculosis and malaria, once believed under control, are killing millions of people in Southeast Asian countries, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Monday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to halve the numbers of people without access to water supply and sanitation by 2015 and drastically cut the planet's annual death toll from water-borne diseases.
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The World Health Organization expressed disappointment Friday at an Internet board's rejection of its proposal for a new
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A woman who pretended to have cancer and bilked friends, neighbors and family members out of more than $43,000 was sentenced to two years' probation.
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Women who think they can accurately predict the days of the month when they are most fertile should think again.
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Women suffer more from smoking than men because of their generally smaller lungs, scientists say.
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More than 36 million people worldwide will be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by the end of this year, including an estimated 5.3 million new cases, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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Wikipedia-Article "Health [4]"
- 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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