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http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/09/19/mothers.smoking.wmd/index.html
The CRON diet -- a calorie restricted, optimal nutrition eating plan designed to extend human life -- is not for everybody. And Roy Walford, M.D., a professor emeritus of pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and longtime researcher in aging, is the first to admit it.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/12/120.year.sidebar.wmd/index.html
Roy Walford, M.D., professor emeritus of pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is preparing to eat lunch, and you can hardly blame me for scrutinizing his plate.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/12/120.year.diet.wmd/index.html
Just days after Republican leaders endorsed a measure allowing the re-importation of prescription drugs to the United States, a key supporter said Thursday the GOP is trying to water down the bill to please the pharmaceutical industry.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/29/drug.imports/index.html
Gonorrhea, the nation's No. 2 sexually transmitted disease, is showing increased resistance to the antibiotics commonly used to treat it, federal health officials said on Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/22/gonorrhea.treatment.reut/index.html
Let the protests begin. On Thursday, under extraordinary scrutiny, the Food and Drug Administration approved RU-486, otherwise known as
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/09/29/abortionpill9_28.a.tm.tm/index.html
Oral polio vaccines tested in Africa in the late 1950s did not carry the chimpanzee version of HIV or HIV itself, scientists said Monday. The report was based on tests performed by independent laboratories on vaccine samples from The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, where the vaccine was made.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/09/12/polio.vaccine/index.html
When 38-year-old Los Angeles architect Andrew Alper went backpacking in the Sierra last year, he knew full well that crossing the creek at Convict Canyon was a hazardous undertaking. Trail information had warned that the fast-moving stream was dangerous; several bridges had already been washed away. Yet Alper and his three companions decided to cross the creek -- carefully.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/08/outdoor.fitness/index.html
When one of the first words to come out of my daughter's mouth was
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/01/kids.hearts.wmd/index.html
Research is showing that the tobacco plant may yet provide a bonanza for the medical world and bring a brighter future for small tobacco farmers thinking of calling it quits.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/09/tobacco.plant/index.html
The U.S. Congress is considering legislation that would give the public access to the federal data bank that tracks the records of health care providers. Patients would be able to examine the government's Practitioner Data Bank of practicing physicians, including malpractice judgements and disciplinary actions taken against them.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/07/doctor.database/index.html
The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $500 million credit line to help Africa cope with the scourge of AIDS and said it would ask its board to approve an additional $85 million for countries in the Caribbean.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/09/13/africa.bank.reut/index.html
Almost one year ago, the Institute of Medicine released a report showing that up to 98,000 patients die in hospitals every year due to medical errors. This week, a major newspaper reported that nursing mistakes alone are responsible for thousands of injuries and deaths.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/15/your.health/index.html
The blood supply in the United States has gotten so low that some hospitals are being forced to cancel elective surgeries, officials from the American Red Cross said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/19/blood.shortage.02/index.html
Orphans are the most ignored victims of the AIDS pandemic and will come back to haunt the world as uneducated, antisocial youths and adults unless they get help, AIDS advocates said Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/09/12/us.aids.orphans.ap/index.html
In a sealed laboratory, scrub-suited Army scientists are probing the mysteries of mosquitoes that spread the West Nile virus, including one that could be especially adept at transmitting the sometimes deadly disease.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/04/mosquito.lab.ap/index.html
Most college students have a pretty good idea of what binge drinking is and how it affects their campuses, according to Harvard University School of Public Health researchers.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/09/08/binge.drinking.reut/index.html
Call it the new
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/08/blood.alternatives/index.html
Surgery patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center will soon be asked if tissue left over from their operations can be sent to a biotech company that will sell the tissue to genetic researchers.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/01/tissue.research.ap/index.html
Lowering the body's temperature by even 1 degree within a few hours of a stroke can reduce brain damage and the risk of death, according to a new study.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/01/stroke.cold.therapy/index.html
Nursing homes found to have harmed or neglected patients will face higher fines under a bill signed into law Thursday, a measure a patient advocate said may do little to deter abuse.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/09/15/nursing.homes.ap/index.html
Under a new state law, California HMOs will soon be required to let HIV-positive patients get standing referrals to doctors with expertise in treating AIDS.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/09/18/aids.hmos.ap/index.html
Deborah Pryce is a lawyer, former judge and a member of Congress. Yet she felt helpless and
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/09/15/cancer.center.ap/index.html
Money can't buy you love, but some doctors say it can buy peace of mind about deadly heart disease or lung cancer and maybe a few more years with your loved ones.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/07/health.scans.reut/index.html
At least two people are believed to have contracted Legionnaires' disease from potting soil in the first such cases ever reported in the United States, the government said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/01/legionnaires.soil.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Untreated drug addictions and mental illnesses in families underlie at least 80 percent of U. S. cases of child abuse and neglect, according to one expert.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/09/15/substance.abuse/index.html
Three years of data on the chicken pox vaccine since it first became available show it is generally a safe and effective way to prevent a mostly annoying but potentially serious childhood disease, the U.S. government says.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/09/13/chickenpox.vaccine.ap/index.html
President Clinton proposed spending $1 billion to remedy what he said is inadequate staffing at nursing homes, the
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/09/18/clinton.nursing.homes.ap/index.html
The lump in 8-year-old Tyler Callahan's chest is ground zero for the cancer treatments that have weakened his body, stolen his hair and reduced his weight to less than 55 pounds.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/09/04/virtual.cancer.ap/index.html
Depending on who is talking, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder can be a real problem affecting anywhere from 1 to 20 percent of school-age children. On the other hand, some call it a phantom diagnosis created to stimulate health care industry and drug company profits at the expense of children's health and unwary parents' pocketbooks.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/09/19/attention.deficit/index.html
At least three people undergoing emergency medical treatment have died because city Fire Department dispatchers failed to ask callers scripted medical questions used to brief paramedics, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/05/emergency.calls.ap/index.html
Nutritionists call the survey alarming: More older Americans -- the people most at risk of cancer -- say they're popping unproven dietary supplements in a quest for tumor-fighting nutrients than trying to eat more cancer-protective foods.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/05/diet.cancer.ap/index.html
President Francisco Flores declared a national emergency this week after an epidemic of dengue fever claimed a 17th victim.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/14/salvador.dengue.ap/index.html
You may think you rebounded fine from that knee injury playing hoops or soccer at age 16, but it could haunt you by your 40s or 50s.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/12/knee.injuries.ap/index.html
Common ideas about stretches may stretch the truth, researchers say.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/11/fitness.stretching.ap/index.html
Federal health officials approved a novel surgically implanted ear device Thursday that may help Americans frustrated with regular hearing aids to hear better.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/01/hearing.implant.ap/index.html
Patients in the United States with the AIDS virus are about to get a new option that may help those who have failed standard therapy -- a drug called Kaletra.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/AIDS/09/18/aids.drug.ap/index.html
Federal health officials warned Internet users Wednesday to beware of a concoction made of apricot seeds that's touted as a cancer cure, as a Florida court case became the government's latest attempt to quell a resurgence of laetrile.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/09/07/laetrile.crackdown.ap/index.html
Those much-touted anti-cholesterol margarines are getting the government's blessing to take their advertising a step further -- and say they really can lower the risk of heart disease.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/06/healthful.margarines.ap/index.html
Doctors should examine carefully two popular surgical clamps used for circumcising newborns, the Food and Drug Administration warned, after it received reports that worn-out or improperly-assembled clamps have injured some infants.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/09/06/circumcision.warning.ap/index.html
From CNN Medical Correspondent Rhonda Rowland
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/05/office.surgery/index.html
Investigators say he ran an illegal dental practice out a filthy bedroom in his apartment, seating patients in a worn dental chair and cleaning teeth with water flowing from a garden house into old equipment.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/02/unlicensed.doctors.ap/index.html
Investigators say he ran an illegal dental practice out a filthy bedroom in his apartment, seating patients in a worn dental chair and cleaning teeth with water flowing from a garden house into old equipment.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/04/unlicensed.doctors.ap/index.html
Eight-year-old David Raphael thinks those fold-up, foot-powered metal scooters are safe.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/09/06/scooter.injuries.ap/index.html
Eleven former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioners have come out against legislation that would lift a ban on prescription drug imports, a pharmaceutical industry group said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/01/drug.imports.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) - The study of human genes has yielded a medicine that hastens healing of tissues in patients with chronic and often painful leg and feet ulcers.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/13/genome.wounds/index.html
Girl athletes should be watched closely to make sure that their training doesn't include poor eating habits that could result in damaging bone loss, the American Academy of Pediatrics says.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/06/girl.athletes.ap/index.html
Drinking grapefruit juice to wash down some prescription medicines may be dangerous because the juice can raise blood concentrations of the drug beyond what the dosage calls for, researchers said on Tuesday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/12/grapefruit.medication.reut/index.html
Forty states will soon give up hundreds of millions of dollars of federal money earmarked for health insurance for children in low-income families because they haven't used all their allotted funds, The New York Times reported Sunday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/09/25/healthcare.lost/index.html
The U.S. government decision to approve the abortion pill intensifies a vigorous debate that has raged for generations -- long before the development of mifepristone, the drug more widely known as RU-486.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/09/29/abortion.pill.analysis/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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