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Menopause is a normal part of a woman's life that is brought on by declining levels of estrogen and progesterone, which trigger the end of regular menstrual cycles.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/13/hln.fit.menopause/index.html
The Bush administration has rolled out a five-year, $15 billion government-wide strategy for combating the AIDS/HIV pandemic.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/23/us.aids.plan/index.html
Regular exercise is one of the keys to healthy living, but new research suggests physical activity also may be significant for people to stay independent longer as they age -- at least for women.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/20/hln.fit.elderly.exercise/index.html
According to the American Council on Exercise, a top-notch exercise program should have three components: strength, flexibility and aerobic training.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/06/hln.fit.dance.workout/index.html
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, Alice-in-Wonderland syndrome, wandering spleen.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/20/strange.cases/index.html
An Australian-designed drug could prove to be an effective human treatment for the deadly bird flu strain that has been causing havoc across Asia.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/19/birdflu.australia/index.html
A civilian Army researcher at Fort Detrick, Maryland, is in isolation after possibly being exposed to the Ebola virus, Army officials said Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/19/ebola.exposure/index.html
New research suggests that the human form of mad cow disease may be transmitted through blood transfusions.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/06/vcjd.study/index.html
With the obesity epidemic on the rise, U.S. teenagers are encouraged to participate in sports, but a recent study reported in the American College of Cardiology says that for some teens, playing sports without proper medical screening can be deadly.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/27/hln.fit.teens.athletics/index.html
A protein produced by overstressed heart muscle appears to be a strong indicator of heart disease, offering doctors a quick and cheap test for diagnosing patients in the ER and a potential new way to spot heart trouble well before symptoms appear.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/02/12/heart.peptide.ap/index.html
Parents and doctors need more explicit warnings that some widely used antidepressants are suspected of sometimes causing suicidal behavior in children and teenagers, scientific advisers told the government.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/parenting/02/02/antidepressants.kids.ap/index.html
A team of researchers said it has found a simple genetic mutation that doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/02/09/heart.gene.reut/index.html
Paramedics are testing an experimental blood substitute on severely injured patients without their consent in an unusual study under way or proposed at 20 hospitals around the country.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/20/blood.substitute.ap/index.html
The widow of Dr. Robert Atkins and the chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council criticized a newspaper report Tuesday that said the low-carb diet guru was obese at the time of his death.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/10/atkins.widow/index.html
An infant girl born with a second head bled to death Saturday after complex surgery to remove her partially formed twin, her parents and doctors said.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/07/dominican.surgery.ap/index.html
The government is requiring that supermarket-style bar codes soon be placed on the labels of thousands of drugs to help ensure that hospitalized patients get the right dose of the right drug at the right time.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/25/drugs.barcodes.ap/index.html
Considering the lack of good treatments for strokes, it probably is no surprise that researchers will consider just about anything. But still, vampire bat saliva?
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/07/vampire.saliva.ap/index.html
A flock of 12,000 chickens in Delaware was destroyed Saturday in a bid to prevent the spread of avian flu, and state agriculture officials hastened to say the virus differs from the one that has killed people in Asia.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/07/bird.flu.usa.reut/index.html
Nine-year-old Patrick Price bounced up to the huge MRI machine, a powerful brain scanner disguised by drapes to resemble a kid-friendly castle. Inside, he lay nearly motionless as words and symbols flashed on a screen before his eyes.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/10/dyslexia.ap/index.html
A U.S. soldier's wife who was accidentally exposed to the live virus in the smallpox vaccine likely passed it on to her baby through breast-feeding, according to military authorities.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/13/smallpox.reut/index.html
Starting this month, British doctors will be able to prescribe maggots to patients with infected wounds, a hospital official said.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/23/offbeat.maggots.antibiotics.reut/index.html
Pharmacy groups and the Food and Drug Administration started a campaign Wednesday to warn consumers that buying drugs from Canada can be dangerous.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/05/canada.drugs.ap/index.html
Frank Knower knew something was wrong when he kept having conversations with co-workers and later couldn't remember a thing that was said. He couldn't even remember what he'd said.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/21/sleepy.brain.ap/index.html
Americans, especially women, are getting fatter because they eat much more of everything than they did 30 years ago, and carbs are the biggest culprit, the government said Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/02/05/more.calories.ap/index.html
Chagas disease, a deadly parasitic blood illness that recently has drawn attention in this country, has infected some South and Central Americans for at least 9,000 years, researchers said Monday.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/03/ancient.disease.ap/index.html
Those chocolates that make your Valentine's heart go pitty-pat may also help keep that heart running longer and stronger.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/02/10/chocolate.gift.ap/index.html
The announcement by South Korean scientists that they had created human embryos by cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells has raised concerns around the world.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/13/science.clone/index.html
An international group of doctors is pushing for aggressive treatment to prevent half a million deaths worldwide from a common bloodstream infection.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/14/blood.infection.ap/index.html
A day after their riskiest operation yet, two Filipino brothers joined at the tops of their heads greeted doctors with high-fives and a little dance Saturday.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/22/conjoined.twins.ap/index.html
Drinking plenty of fluids while suffering from a cold or respiratory infection could cause more harm than good, researchers said Friday.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/02/27/liquids.cold.reut/index.html
During the eight weeks of the New You Resolution program, participants are keeping a journal. Experts recommend journal-keeping in helping to set goals and implement action for change. Below are excerpts from participant David Peck's journal from the past week, with the most current at the top.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/12/sprj.nyr.peck.journal/index.html
The government told makers of hormone replacement therapies Tuesday to add yet another warning to their labels -- that hormones may increase older women's risk of Alzheimer's or other types of dementia.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/11/hormone.therapy.ap/index.html
They call it the invisible illness, and for good reason: Depression affects nearly one in 10 U.S. adults each year, but experts say the disease is treatable in most cases.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/01/15/depression/index.html
An Omaha cardiologist accused of inappropriately obtaining a report on the death of diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins said he never misrepresented his position or intended the information to go to the media.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/13/atkins.ap/index.html
A man developed temporary amnesia from the shock of dreaming that his son was killed in combat in Iraq, even though the young man was fine and not even in the military, according to a report in a medical journal.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/19/nightmare.amnesia.ap/index.html
Every year, the government estimates tens of thousands of Americans die from mistakes by doctors or nurses -- operating on wrong patients, prescribing incorrect drugs or even leaving surgical instruments inside patients.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/05/cnna.med.mistakes/index.html
Chicken pox vaccine loses a substantial amount of its effectiveness in the first year after it is administered but overall remains very protective up to eight years, a study said on Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/parenting/02/18/chickenpox.reut/index.html
Doctors in the Dominican Republic have successfully removed the second head of a baby girl in a marathon operation thought to be the first of its kind.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/07/dominican.surgery/index.html
Don't be surprised at your next checkup if the doctor measures your waist and writes a prescription for exercise: They are among the recommendations in a new call to action for primary-care physicians.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/02/10/doctors.obesity.ap/index.html
The treatment used in poor countries to prevent the spread of HIV from mothers to their babies may have a serious drawback: It can make the women resistant to the AIDS drugs they may need later on, disturbing new research shows.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/02/10/aids.newborns.ap/index.html
Millions of middle-aged and older Americans unknowingly harbor one of three eye diseases that could blind them -- diseases that could be detected in time to save at least some sight if they got regular eye exams.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/02/24/eye.disease.ap/index.html
A South Carolina psychiatrist said Wednesday he will immediately start recruiting patients after winning approval to conduct the first study testing MDMA -- better known as ecstasy -- as a therapeutic tool.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/25/ecstasy.study/index.html
Fighting fire with fire, public health officials are using e-mail to try to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among people who meet through Internet chat rooms and Web sites.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/20/email.std.ap/index.html
An anti-epilepsy drug that is now being tested for uses from alcoholism to weight loss can curtail the number of headaches experienced by migraine sufferers, a new study suggests.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/25/migraine.reut/index.html
As Burger King promotes bunless burgers and Subway hawks low-carb sandwich wraps, some upscale restaurants are pouring on the cream and perfecting flourless batter in their own appeal to those on Atkins-style diets.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/02/17/carb.restaurants.ap/index.html
With their feet dangling in a tub of colorful balls, 21/2-year-old twins Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim delight in sending a batch flying as they kick them away.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/12/egyptian.twins.ap/index.html
A Food and Drug Administration committee decided Thursday to add the flu strain that caused the most illnesses this year to next year's influenza vaccine.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/19/flu.vaccine.ap/index.html
An independent scientific panel weighing a possible link between autism and the mercury preservative in childhood vaccines heard suggestions on Monday that the source of the heavy metal could be fish.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/09/autism.vaccine.reut/index.html
It has come to this in America: Burgers are losing their buns.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/15/bunless.burgers.ap/index.html
Critics are calling for major new curbs on who can get a prescription for the acne drug Accutane, after voluntary restrictions failed to reduce the number of pregnancies among women using the birth defect-causing medicine.
http://cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/02/27/accutane.pregnancy.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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