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The holidays can be a joyous time, but they can also be very stressful.
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It was 1947 when the United States last fought a war against the biological enemy smallpox.
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Many call it the biggest public health decision the country has ever had to make: to vaccinate or not to vaccinate against the smallpox virus.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/06/yh.pul.smallpox/index.html
Every parent knows -- and dreads -- the sound of a baby wailing, especially in the middle of the night.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/parenting/12/12/sleeping.baby/index.html
Experts warn a diet pill for children being marketed over the Internet could cause kidney damage and other problems.
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With maternal mortality rates among the globe's worst, Afghanistan is one of the riskiest places in the world to be pregnant.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/06/afghan.maternal.mortality/index.html
A congressional committee is holding hearings Tuesday into the relationship between childhood vaccinations and autism. According to the House Government Reform Committee, as many as 1.5 million Americans suffer some form of autism, and the rate is increasing by 10 percent to 17 percent a year. Many people believe thimerosol, a mercury-based preservative used in some vaccines, may be partly to blam...
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/parenting/12/10/cnna.autism.vaccines/index.html
A company founded by the Raelian sect, which believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials, said Friday it has created the first human clone. Brigitte Boisselier, the CEO of Clonaid, said the baby girl was born Thursday in an undisclosed location.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/27/cnna.gupta.boisselier/index.html
President Bush plans to announce Friday that he is directing 500,000 members of the U.S. military to receive vaccinations against smallpox, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
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Alarmed at the prospect of an explosion of HIV/AIDS cases, authorities in China are planning to lift a long-standing ban on condom advertisements, state media has reported.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/02/china.condoms/index.html
A company founded by members of a sect that believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials says the alleged first human clone -- an infant girl -- returned home Monday and will undergo testing to verify its genetic makeup.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/30/human.cloning/index.html
Is it the next generation of skin care science or an expensive con? Everything from ancient herbs to sheep placentas have been used to make skin creams -- now, it's DNA.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/19/dna.skin.cream/index.html
A group founded by a fringe religious group announced Friday the birth of the first cloned human, a baby girl named Eve. The group, Clonaid, was founded by the Raelian movement, which believes that humans were created by extraterrestrials.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/27/cnna.lanza/index.html
Now that the holiday season is at full speed, so are the stress levels. With family pressures, shopping headaches and money woes, the Christmas season offers a lot of reasons not to be jolly. CNN anchor Bill Hemmer spoke with CNN Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta about ways to make it through.
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Now that the holiday season is at full speed, so are the stress levels. With family pressures, shopping headaches and money woes, the Christmas season offers a lot of reasons not to be jolly. CNN anchor Bill Hemmer spoke with CNN Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta about ways to make it through.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/23/otsc.holiday.stress/index.html
Some passengers and crew members on at least two cruise ships recently have suffered from gastrointestinal illness caused by Norwalk virus, and the virus is also suspected in an outbreak on a third ship.
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Childhood obesity has become a serious problem in the United States, but a new pill that claims to help kids lose weight is drawing criticism from doctors and nutritionists. CNN anchor Bill Hemmer spoke with medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen about the so-called skinny pill.
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The bold claims made on the labels of some food products and dietary supplements will have to be backed up by science from now on.
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Editor's Note: CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta answers medical questions submitted by e-mail on Your Health, which airs at 2:30 p.m. ET on Saturdays. Questions and answers are posted on CNN.com after the show.
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The assertion Friday by Clonaid that a newborn girl is a clone renews the debate over the ethics of cloning and what legal ramifications, if any, will result.
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The patient who was left on an operating table while his doctor went to the bank filed a malpractice suit against the surgeon Wednesday.
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Millions of people around the globe marked World AIDS Day under the shadow of grim statistics which show the raging epidemic outpacing all efforts to control it.
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Doctors in eastern Pennsylvania who were threatening to walk off the job Wednesday because of high malpractice costs will work as usual, thanks to a $220 million bailout proposal by Gov.-elect Ed Rendell.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/31/medical.malpractice/index.html
Editor's note: CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta answers medical questions submitted by e-mail on Your Health, which airs at 2:30 p.m. EST on Saturdays. Questions and answers are posted on CNN.com after the show. This week, Dr. Gupta answers questions about smallpox that are frequently asked of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/04/yh.ask.smallpox/index.html
The leader of a religious sect that claimed to have created the first human clone Friday called the development just the first step toward human immortality through cloning.
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The leader of a religious sect that claimed to have created the first human clone Friday called the development just the first step toward human immortality through cloning.
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New medical research could help shed light on the cause of two serious and common eating disorders: anorexia, which involves aversion to food that leads to life-threatening weight loss, and bulimia, which involves binge eating and then purging the body of food.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/12/10/otsc.anorexia.antibodies/index.html
The company that claims to have created the world's first human clone says the baby girl will return home Monday and will undergo testing to verify her genetic makeup.
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What is smallpox?
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans will soon be getting smallpox vaccinations as part of the Bush administration's plan to protect against a bioterror attack.
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Men who suffer sexual dysfunction as a result of taking certain antidepressants can be helped by Viagra, according to an article in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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We've heard the message again and again.
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The nation's largest union of health care workers said Tuesday a smallpox vaccination plan being considered by the Bush administration would not do enough to protect such workers.
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Representatives of the nation's largest union of health care workers Wednesday said they will not oppose a government plan to vaccinate medical workers for smallpox, although they still have serious safety concerns about it.
http://cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/05/smallpox.health.union/index.html
President Bush plans to announce Friday that he is directing 500,000 members of the U.S. military to receive vaccinations against smallpox, a senior administration official said Wednesday, and to later offer the vaccine to all Americans who choose to be inoculated.
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The claim that a cloned child has been born in an undisclosed country displays a brutal mentality lacking ethical consideration, a Vatican spokesman has said.
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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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