Nov 20 2008

Health and medicine: diseases, treatments and medication

Health is the level of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an organism at both the micro(cellular) and macro(social) level. In the medical field, health is commonly defined as an organism’s ability to efficiently respond to challenges (stressors) and effectively restore and sustain a “state of balance,” known as homeostasis.
Another widely accepted definition of health is [...]

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