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Special pacemakers designed to correct a defect that affects close to 2 million heart failure patients in the United States can also prolong their lives, an analysis found.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/02/11/heart.failure.ap/index.html
A university livestock program has stopped selling former research pigs to market after the announcement of a federal investigation into whether the animals had been genetically modified.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/10/biotech.pigs.ap/index.html
Scientists have dramatically lowered their estimates of how many people are likely to die from the human form of mad cow disease, though experts say much uncertainty remains.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/02/28/madcow.disease.ap/index.html
Federal officials said Thursday that an examination of chemicals related to the manufacture of blood bags has revealed nothing that would have caused white particles to show up in donated blood.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/14/blood.investigation.ap/index.html
Services were planned this week for Jesica Santillan as the state's chief medical examiner performed an autopsy to determine whether a medical error in a heart-lung transplant surgery is what claimed the life of the 17-year-old.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/25/transplant.error/index.html
The sickly economy may have a silver lining: Research shows tough times are good for your health.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/08/healthy.recession.ap/index.html
A syndrome linked to obesity, diabetes and heart disease is most common among Mexican-American women and least common among black men, a study found.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/02/24/fat.syndrome.ap/index.html
Doctors who use treadmill tests to diagnose heart disease could better predict the risk of death if they paid more attention to what happens to a patient's heart after he or she steps off the treadmill, a large study found.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/02/27/heart.stress.tests.ap/index.html
Fresh evidence adds to suspicions that ibuprofen could be dangerous for most heart patients because it can block the blood-thinning benefits of aspirin.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/02/14/aspirin.ibuprofen.ap/index.html
Women aren't the only ones with a ticking biological clock. A new study adds to the evidence that men's fertility declines with age, too.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/05/male.fertility/index.html
Women aren't the only ones with a ticking biological clock. A new study adds to the evidence that men's fertility declines with age, too.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/06/male.fertility/index.html
A federal study of a childhood leukemia cluster in this northern Nevada town found high levels of tungsten and arsenic in most residents -- but nothing to indicate that either caused any cancers.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/02/07/leukemia.cluster.ap/index.html
Neurological damage in very small premature babies may decrease over time, according to research that tracked children through age 8 and found substantial mental gains.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/parenting/02/12/preemies.intelligence.ap/index.html
New research appears to contradict a widely publicized study that concluded that cheap, old-fashioned diuretics should be the first drug given to people with high blood pressure.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/02/12/blood.pressure.ap/index.html
New research appears to contradict a widely publicized study that concluded that cheap, old-fashioned diuretics should be the first drug given to people with high blood pressure.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/02/13/blood.pressure.ap/index.html
Underage drinkers account for one-fifth of the nation's alcohol consumption, a study says.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/25/underage.drinking.ap/index.html
Scientists may have found the answer to Britain's most dangerous hospital superbug -- in slime taken from Scottish rock pools.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/27/scotland.bacteria/index.html
Memo from U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona to the nation's cops: lay off the donuts. That goes for firefighters, as well, Carmona said Friday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/28/obesity.police/index.html
Ron Mercier used to give Amy McCloud hall passes in school and advice on the softball field. Now, he's given her a kidney.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/10/teacher.kidney.ap/index.html
Jesica Santillan is in a pediatric intensive care unit, fighting to recover from her second heart-lung transplant surgery in two weeks because of a medical error.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/20/transplant.error/index.html
Doctors have won federal approval of a new blood test to help them tell which patients suffering chest pain aren't really having a heart attack.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/17/heart.attack.test.ap/index.html
When you kiss your sweetheart this Valentine's Day you may well turn your head to the right, echoing a preference born in the womb, a researcher suggests.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/12/offbeat.kiss.study.ap/index.html
As many as 5,000 physicians from across New Jersey traveled to Trenton on Tuesday to rally on the Statehouse steps, where they chanted tort reform now and McGreevey must go in protest of Gov. Jim McGreevey's failure to support state imposed caps on medical malpractice awards.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/04/nj.doctors.rally/index.html
A teenager from Mexico who mistakenly received organs from a donor with a different blood type was not expected to live more than a few days, a family friend said Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/18/transplant.error.ap/index.html
The federal anti-drug plan for 2003 includes new initiatives to help drug addicts seek treatment, partnerships with faith-based programs and an aggressive battle against drug dealers, White House anti-drug czar John Walters said Wednesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/13/drug.czar.plan/index.html
Doctors at Duke University Hospital declared Jesica Santillan dead at 1:25 p.m. Saturday and removed her from a respirator soon after. The 17 year-old girl had two heart and lung transplants this month, the first of which used organs with the wrong blood type.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/22/transplant.error/index.html
When it comes to pain, people can be wimps, stoics or somewhere in between. Now scientists have found one reason -- a variation in a single gene that shows stoics really can tolerate more pain.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/20/stoics.wimps.ap/index.html
More than 500 people were vaccinated for smallpox on the first day of the state's inoculation program for health workers, officials said Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/12/smallpox.vaccinations.ap/index.html
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Wikipedia-Article "Health [3]"
- 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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