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Preliminary evidence shows Gulf War veterans are twice as likely as non-deployed veterans to develop Lou Gehrig's disease, U.S. government researchers said Monday.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/10/gulfwar.vets/index.html
Cleanup crews pumped toxic chlorine dioxide gas into the Hart Senate Office Building for much of the day Saturday in an attempt to kill all traces of anthrax contamination left over from a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in October, officials said.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/01/anthrax.hart/index.html
The anthrax found in letters sent to two U.S. senators is a genetic match to a strain of the bacteria maintained by the Army since 1980, a senior government official said Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/18/anthrax.investigation/index.html
Trace amounts of anthrax were found on four pieces of mail-sorting equipment in a postal facility that handled the mail of a woman who died of inhalation anthrax, the United States Postal Service announced Sunday.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/03/connecticut.anthrax/index.html
A 74-year-old man who received a self-contained artificial heart has died, 56 days after being fitted with the pioneering device, UCLA Medical Center announced Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/12/13/artificial.heart.death/index.html
Authorities are winding down their investigation into a 94-year-old New England woman's mysterious death from anthrax.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/12/11/anthrax.connecticut/index.html
As investigators continue to look into the possibility that two Northeastern women contracted inhalation anthrax via cross-contaminated mail, disease experts Thursday offered suggestions about how to handle mail safely.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/06/anthrax.cdc/index.html
U.S. officials say Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network may possess radiological material that could be used to make a so-called dirty bomb.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/12/11/dirty.bomb/index.html
A war of words has begun in the aftermath of the announcement by the Massachusetts biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) that it had successfully cloned a human embryo.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/12/10/ethics.matters/index.html
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has called for AIDS victims to be given easier access to drugs that fight the disease.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/12/01/aids.day.mandela/index.html
State health officials have found nothing to connect the deaths last month of three men following their elective knee surgery, it was announced Friday.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/12/07/knee.surgery.deaths/index.html
There is plenty of flu vaccine available, yet only about half of Americans at high risk have been vaccinated, a government health official said Friday.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/21/flu.vaccine/index.html
Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions in the United States, Surgeon General David Satcher said Thursday, and could soon cause as much preventable disease and death as cigarette smoking.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/13/satcher.obesity/index.html
Scientists at Fort Detrick, a germ warfare research lab in Maryland, Wednesday opened the envelope containing an anthrax-contaminated letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy and began the painstaking process of removing the anthrax inside, the FBI said.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/05/anthrax.leahy.letter/index.html
A limited supply of tetanus and several other vaccines in the United States is stirring concern that more children could begin contracting otherwise preventable diseases.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/12/04/vaccine.shortage/index.html
Only six employees at Washington's Brentwood mail processing facility have elected to receive an experimental anthrax vaccine as of Thursday, just over two months since the building became a focal point of the anthrax crisis, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/27/anthrax.brentwood/index.html
This has been a truly remarkable year for news and events, the likes of which we can only hope never to repeat. It has been remarkable not only for tragedy and the unity spawned in its aftermath, but also for the many advances in science and medicine, which were both stunning in their achievements and worrisome for the difficult moral questions they raised.
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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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