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It turns out the amount of physical activity a man engages in is a good predictor of how much physical activity a man can engage in in the bedroom.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/26/hln.fit.impotence/index.html
For the nearly 10 million U.S. cancer survivors, key ways to protect against a recurrence of illness include maintaining a healthy weight and diet and exercising, the American Cancer Society recommends.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/12/hln.fit.cancer.exercise/index.html
Some Americans have become increasingly anxious about their health in the age of SARS, anthrax mailing scares and West Nile virus.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/19/hln.fit.obesity/index.html
Stability balls have been used for decades in physical rehabilitation clinics around the world. But these days, stability balls have gone mainstream as personal trainers, group fitness classes and home exercise videos have all embraced this versatile and economical piece of training equipment.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/05/hln.fit.stability.balls/index.html
A health official in China's Guangdong province has reported that a man suspected of having SARS has been identified and isolated in a hospital in the provincial capital of Guangzhou.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/27/china.sars/index.html
The 22-month-old toddler hailed as a miracle child when she was revived nearly an hour after being declared dead has suffered a severe brain injury, her doctors said Wednesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/10/revived.toddler/index.html
In the not-too-distant future, autopsies might be performed using computerized scanning rather than scalpels if research led by a Swiss forensic pathologist bears fruit.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/04/virtual.autopsy.ap/index.html
Drugs given to children to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could have long-term effects on their growing brains, studies on rats suggest.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/parenting/12/08/add.drugs.reut/index.html
Researchers have discovered that a special protein-producing gene can help the brain fight the onset of Alzheimer's disease, a member of the team behind the finding said Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/12/11/alzheimers.gene.ap/index.html
A study of young adults who have a gene mutation linked to Alzheimer's suggests the brain-destroying disease starts decades before symptoms appear, indicating that someday it might be possible to begin prevention therapies at an early age.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/12/16/early.alzheimers.ap/index.html
Global health agencies are set to mark World AIDS Day by unveiling an ambitious plan to treat three million people living with AIDS within two years.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/30/world.aids.day/index.html
British scientists said on Monday they had launched a major clinical study to see whether a combination of aspirin and an anti-ulcer drug could prevent thousands of cases of cancer of the esophagus, or food pipe.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/12/30/cancer.aspirin.reut/index.html
Inside hospital pharmacies, tiny bar codes just an eighth of an inch tall adorn the blister packs that hold single-pill doses of certain drugs, like Dilantin for seizures and Lipitor for cholesterol.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/09/hospital.barcodes.ap/index.html
Doctors watching for another SARS outbreak should take a cue from how the epidemic was handled earlier this year in hard-hit Beijing, where vigorous infection-control practices rapidly overcame authorities' initial missteps, U.S. and Chinese government researchers say.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/26/sars.lessons.ap/index.html
The British government reported on Wednesday a patient died of the human form of mad cow disease after a blood transfusion from an infected donor -- the first time such a connection has been reported.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/12/17/madcow.disease.ap/index.html
Britain announced Wednesday what could be the world's first possible case of the transmission of the human form of mad cow disease through a blood transfusion.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/17/britain.cjd.reut/index.html
Boston will proceed with plans to let city employees purchase prescription drugs from Canada despite a federal prohibition on importing them, Mayor Thomas Menino said Thursday after meeting with Food and Drug Administration officials.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/18/canada.drugs.ap/index.html
Flu season started early this year, bringing with it widespread outbreaks in at least 13 states and sparking a shortage in vaccine supplies.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/10/cnna.orenstein/index.html
Federal officials said Wednesday that flu activity has reached widespread levels in all but five U.S. states.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/25/sprj.flu03.flu.widespread.ap/index.html
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that the influenza outbreak sickening people in three dozen states is an epidemic, though it does not technically meet the definition.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/19/sprj.flu03.epidemic/index.html
The United States is ill-equipped to handle a major outbreak of the deadly SARS virus, according to a report commissioned by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/03/sars.report.ap/index.html
The nation's health agency plans to closely watch flu complications among children, who have swamped hospitals in some states and surprised doctors with the severity of their illnesses.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/09/flu.ap/index.html
The average age at which American women are having their first child has climbed to an all-time high of 25.1, the government said Wednesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/parenting/12/17/american.births.ap/index.html
China's populace may have to wait several more days before finding out whether the deadly SARS virus is making a comeback as international experts examine the latest potential case.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/29/china.sars.quarantine/index.html
None of the people who have been in contact with a suspected SARS patient in China are showing symptoms of having contracted the illness, the official China Daily newspaper has reported.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/28/china.sars.quarantine/index.html
An international chemical company is studying the apparent high rate of brain tumors among employees at a suburban Philadelphia laboratory to see if the tumors are related to chemical exposure.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/29/brain.tumor.ap/index.html
Making a morning after pill available without a prescription would provide more timely access to the emergency contraceptive, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said in a preliminary analysis.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/16/morning.after.pill.reut/index.html
Some doctors laud as a lifesaver a heart-monitoring device that faxes information directly to a physician's office from anywhere in the world.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/04/heart.device.ap/index.html
With the nation's supply of flu shots dropping rapidly and at least 13 states facing an unusually severe flu outbreak, doctors are urging healthy people to opt for a nasal-spray version of the vaccine and save the traditional one for children and the elderly.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/08/flu.ap/index.html
Two workhorse drugs can be combined to strike a doubly powerful blow against symptoms of an enlarged prostate, an irritating and occasionally dangerous condition widespread in older men, a study found.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/12/18/prostate.drugs.ap/index.html
High blood pressure, heart disease and related problems are not the inevitable products of aging but problems that can be held at bay by being fit early in life, according to a new study.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/diet.fitness/12/17/early.fitness.reut/index.html
The fifth outbreak in two years of the deadly Ebola virus in a remote area of central Africa has so far killed 29 people, the U.N. health agency said Wednesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/12/18/ebola.ap/index.html
The pending ban on the herb ephedra sends a signal to a large and loosely regulated industry that the government is willing to crack down on risky dietary supplements.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/31/ephedra.next.ap/index.html
Food and supplement labels need to be updated to reflect current nutritional guidelines and should warn, for instance, against eating too much artery-clogging trans-fat, federal advisers said Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/diet.fitness/12/12/food.labels.reut/index.html
A New Mexico woman who has traveled the globe in search of rare cells that could save her adopted Chinese daughter rushed home after learning the girl had taken a turn for the worst.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/04/kailees.marrow.ap/index.html
The Food and Drug Administration Tuesday declared the anthrax vaccine safe and effective in response to a federal judge's injunction against mandatory vaccinations of what he said was an experimental drug.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/30/fda.anthrax/index.html
People hoping to smooth wrinkles around the nose and mouth now have another options -- a wrinkle filler called Restylane long used in Europe.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/15/restylane.ap/index.html
The government is warning health workers and the public to beware of peddlers of illegal flu vaccine trying to take advantage of current shortages.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/24/sprj.flu03.flu.fraud.ap/index.html
Federal regulators are hoping to persuade Boston and New Hampshire officials to abandon plans to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/17/canada.drugs.ap/index.html
In the international mail facility at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, packages of confiscated prescription drugs are stacked floor-to-ceiling.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/24/canada.drugs.safety.ap/index.html
Consumer advocates are again urging the government to advise pregnant women to limit tuna consumption, arguing that some varieties contain more potentially harmful mercury than others.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/10/mercury.fish.ap/index.html
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/16/sprj.flu03.santa.ap/index.html
A severe flu outbreak blamed in the deaths of at least 20 children isn't keeping some parents from taking their youngsters on the annual visit to Santa Claus.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/16/sprj.flu03.flu.outbreak.ap/index.html
This year's flu outbreak isn't an epidemic yet, but a health authority said Friday it soon will be.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/12/sprj.flu03.flu/index.html
Widespread outbreaks have been reported in at least 13 states -- mostly in the West -- but federal health officials say this year's flu season has not yet peaked -- and vaccine supplies are running low.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/10/sprj.flu/index.html
The two makers of flu shots in the United States said Friday they have run out of vaccine and will not be able to meet a surge in demand resulting from fears of a particularly bad flu season.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/12/05/flu.outbreak.ap/index.html
The nation's top health agency has activated its emergency operations center and has established response teams to assist states with the country's flu outbreak, federal officials said Friday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/19/sprj.flu03.cdc.ap/index.html
Sniffling, achy people suffering from the flu are crowding hospital emergency rooms around the country, creating long waits in the ER and frustrating doctors who can do little more than treat the symptoms.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/17/sprj.flu03.hospitals.ap/index.html
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Supplies of flu shots at Georgia's public health clinics are running low, though the vaccine still may be available with private providers, state health officials said.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/12/10/flu.ap/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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