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Abortion foes said that allowing a plant in China to make abortion pills for American women is an
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/10/13/abortionpill.plant.ap/index.html
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - A widely-used blue food dye may
have contributed to the deaths of three critically ill patients
after it was used to color the liquid food pumped into their
stomachs, according to a report in Thursday's New England
Journal of Medicine.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/05/health.dye.reut/index.html
College football players sick with food poisoning transmitted the virus to the opposing team on the field in the first documented case of its kind in sports, researchers say.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/25/football.virus.ap/index.html
A single gene makes the malaria parasite resistant to the preferred drug used to treat it, researchers said Thursday -- a finding that could make it easier to develop drugs to treat the infection.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/20/malaria.gene.reut/index.html
Researchers said on Tuesday they were homing in on a new gene associated with the paralyzing disease known as Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS or motor neuron disease, which may shed light on what causes the illness and may offer treatments for it.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/04/gehrigs.gene.reut/index.html
A gene therapy experiment relieved severe symptoms of Parkinson's disease in monkeys and experts say the technique offers promise for treating the 1.2 million Americans who suffer from the disease, experts say.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/26/parkinsons.disease.ap/index.html
Dr. Raymond Scalettar is angry: He has to send elderly lung-disease patients to nearby supermarkets for a flu shot. Why? Some huge grocery chains received thousands of vaccine doses before manufacturers shipped them to many private doctors whose patients are so frail influenza could kill them.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/24/flushots.ap/index.html
Scientific advisers for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and drug manufacturers disagree on whether an ingredient in popular over-the-counter cold and diet medicines can be used safely.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/20/fda.decongestant/index.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese researchers said Wednesday they may have figured out why high iron levels in the blood are linked with heart disease, and it may all boil down to rust.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/26/health.heart.iron.reut/index.html
Tropicana Products Inc. will try to squeeze out more profits with a new marketing strategy touting orange juice as good for the heart.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/10/31/tropicana.potassium.ap/index.html
Abortion foes in Congress introduced bills on Wednesday that would tighten standards for doctors administering the newly approved abortion pill RU-486.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/10/05/abortion.pill.ap/index.html
A suspected high occurrence of Lou Gehrig's disease among former and current workers at Kelly Air Force Base has prompted a federal investigation to determine whether the base is to blame.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/20/airbase.illnesses.ap/index.html
With thousands of Americans already crossing the Canadian border to buy prescription drugs at much reduced prices, a Maine hospital subsidiary is setting up a system that will save many from making the trip.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/18/prescriptiondrugs.ap/index.html
Clint Hallam, the man who underwent the world's first hand transplant, says he wants the limb amputated because his medical progress has not lived up to expectations.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/20/hand.transplant.ap/index.html
After months of withering criticism over his AIDS policies, President Thabo Mbeki has decided to scale down his involvement in South Africa's AIDS debate.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/10/17/southafrica.aids.ap/index.html
It is clearly a toe, but the 35-year-old carpenter -- who lost his thumb while using a circular saw -- is using it to pick up a penny and to wield a coffee mug.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/02/health.toes.reut/index.html
One million British women have enrolled in the largest study ever of the impact of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on women's health, doctors said on Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/10/16/hormone.study.reut/index.html
Blacks and Hispanics accounted for nearly 70 percent of new HIV infections from July 1999 to June of this year, a striking change in what was once known as a disease of gay white men, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/10/04/minorities.aids.ap/index.html
Monkeys repeatedly dosed themselves with the main active ingredient of marijuana in a new federal study. The researchers say that result emphasizes the idea that people can get hooked on pot and provides a new way to test therapies.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/16/marijuana.monkeys.ap/index.html
More than two-thirds of births in Russia are marred by complications, and every second newborn discharged from a maternity clinic is suffering health problems, medical officials said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/05/russia.babies.ap/index.html
The West Nile virus passed from bird to bird in a laboratory test, a finding that raised new questions about how the virus spreads in the wild, scientists said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/26/west.nile.virus.reut/index.html
Most human embryos possess genetic defects just days into their development, a finding that researchers say may explain why many pregnancies fail shortly after conception.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/23/embryo.abnormalities.ap/index.html
A 37-year-old man is the latest, and youngest, person to be infected in the New York area this year with the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus that causes brain-swelling encephalitis, officials said Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/05/west.nile.reut/index.html
Ear infections, flu, strep throat, abscesses -- Christopher Longo's illnesses started when he was 3 months old. Never fully over one bug before the next hit, he was so constantly sick his growth even faltered.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/10/03/faulty.immunity.ap/index.html
A mentally ill person involuntarily committed to a treatment center can be ordered by a court to take anti-psychotic drugs if it is in the patient's best interest, the state Supreme Court ruled.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/19/mental.illness.ap/index.html
Every year, millions of women undergo that rite of passage: morning sickness. For thousands, it's more than a nuisance of pregnancy, it's a life-disrupting illness that, despite its common name, can last all day for weeks.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/10/10/morning.sickness.ap/index.html
Researchers unveiled several studies here on Monday showing how women made sterile from cancer treatments or radical surgery may be able to avoid permanent menopause through the removal and retransplantation of their own ovarian tissue into their forearms.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/10/24/women.ovaries.reut/index.html
A pill already on the market can safely substitute for insulin injections in women who develop diabetes during pregnancy, a study found.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/10/19/bc.diabetes.pregnancy.ap/index.html
Vigorous regular sex can make you
look up to seven years younger, researchers in Scotland say.
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Cancer rates are falling among U.S. blacks, but African-Americans are still dying of cancer at much higher rates than whites, the American Cancer Society said on Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/10/18/health.cancer.blacks.reut/index.html
Despite perceptions that various
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Women having cancer therapy may one day be able to avoid the ovary damage that often leaves them unable to bear children, researchers report.
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Doctors are reporting early success in using a three-armed robot to repair heart valves -- an approach considered cheaper and less invasive than conventional open-heart surgery.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/24/robot.heart.surgery.ap/index.html
Scientists are close to deciphering the makeup of the Y chromosome, that essential core of maleness that's saddled with a bad reputation, a weird past and an uncertain future.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/men/10/30/guy.chromosome.ap/index.html
Scientists said on Monday they had taken a first step towards being able to control stem cells -- master cells that have the ability to become any kind of cell in the body.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/10/science.cells.reut/index.html
Scientists came into little Daniel Weiss' sunny suburban home armed with a special vacuum cleaner: The 7-year-old's bed, stuffed animal collection, even under the refrigerator -- no place was spared in the hunt for dust.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/10/17/asthma.studies.ap/index.html
Democratic senators, eager to try to attach a prescription drug benefit to one of the final legislative packages, are denouncing Republican attempts to push through a proposal that pumps $28.1 billion into Medicare.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/05/healthcare.politics.ap/index.html
Doctors should be cautious in prescribing a novel rheumatoid arthritis treatment to patients who also have multiple sclerosis, and should watch out for serious anemia in anyone who uses the drug, the manufacturer warned Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/11/arthritis.warning.ap/index.html
The high-tech, wealthy Silicon Valley county of Santa Clara aims to be the first in the United States to guarantee health care coverage to all its uninsured children, local officials said.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/10/05/children.insurance.reut/index.html
Singapore nurseries and kindergartens, closed for two weeks to halt the spread of sometimes deadly hand, foot, mouth disease, will reopen on Monday, health officials said.
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One of the world's leading tobacco companies defended the right of adults to smoke, even as it admitted cigarettes are harmful.
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Predictions of a heavy-hitting flu season and the slow delivery of influenza vaccine could spell trouble, experts say.
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South Africa's giant labor federation COSATU said on Wednesday it would lobby international pharmaceutical firms to cut prices of anti-AIDS drugs now beyond the reach of many poor Africans.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/10/25/safrica.cosatu.reut/index.html
South Africa's giant labor federation COSATU said on Wednesday it would lobby international pharmaceutical companies to cut prices of anti-AIDS drugs now beyond the reach of many poor Africans.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/10/25/aids.southafrica.reut/index.html
Older exercisers have youthful potential to gain strength, if they work hard at it, researchers find.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/men/10/16/oldermen.fitness.ap/index.html
CNN.com - Health - Studies split on flu vaccine's value for workers, day-care kids - October 3, 2000
Flu vaccines could help day-care children and their school-aged siblings stay well and reduce the use of over-prescribed antibiotics, a new study suggests.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/03/flu.vaccine.ap/index.html
Low birth-weight babies fared better at lower cost under a comprehensive care program that provided more clinic visits and 24-hour access to a caregiver than under a routine care plan, a study said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/10/25/bc.health.infants.reut/index.html
Older U.S. patients are often being dosed with the wrong antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, which can leave them sleepy and prone to health problems such as urinary tract infections, researchers said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/10/04/elderly.depression.reut/index.html
Surgical removal of a cancerous prostate is more apt to cause urinary and sexual performance problems than is treatment of the disease with radiation, a study says.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/men/10/04/prostate.treatment.ap/index.html
If men ever needed a reason to exercise, this may be it. A study finds that exercisers are less likely to become impotent.
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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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