A look at some of the areas that companies cut back on when trying to save money but how health and safety issues should never be seen as dispensable.

By now, hardly anyone is unaware of the fact that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and all over the world you can partake in walks and races to show your support. But even if you don't have the time or ability to set out on a 2 or 3-day walk, there is an easy and fun way to help support breast cancer research - shopping!

Yellow fever is a viral sickness transmitted by mosquitoes in parts of South America and Africa. Vaccination is safe and successful and is a legal obligation for people travelling through polluted areas. Avoiding mosquito bites is also optional to reduce the risk of infectious yellow fever or other mosquito-borne diseases.

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The recent massive increase in business and recreational travel outside of the UK, has led to the need for dedicated Travel Health Centers. This is because a considerable proportion of travelers end up with a Health problem ranging from Diarrhoea to Malaria or Yellow Fever. Most of the Health problems contracted through traveling are preventable through appropriate Travel Health advice, precautionary measures and Vaccinations

The recent massive increase in business and recreational travel outside of the UK, has led to the need for dedicated Travel Health Centers, Travel clinics.

Yellow fever is a viral sickness transmitted by mosquitoes in parts of South America and Africa. Vaccination is safe and successful and is a legal obligation for people travelling through polluted areas. Avoiding mosquito bites is also optional to reduce the risk of infectious yellow fever or other mosquito-borne diseases.

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Heavy cell phone use may have a significant impact on the fertility of men, according to a study released in late October by the prestigious Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

The study, conducted by Dr. Ashok Agarwal reported on the results of 364 men who used cell phones for varying amounts of time each day.

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As use of hand-held gadgets increases, opticians fear the U.S. becoming a nation of squinters.

Chris Kwak, a 31-year-old financial analyst, spends hours a day glued to the tiny screen of his Palm Treo hand-held computer. He fires off e-mails, checks stock prices and recently plowed through the novel \"The Da Vinci Code.\"

Medical Robots Start Work at London Hospital

Robots make it possible for doctors to visually examine and communicate with patients, whether they are in another part of the hospital or even another part of the world.

Source: Reuters

LONDON - Science-fiction moved a step closer to reality on Wednesday when robots nicknamed "Sister Mary" and "Doctor Robbie" started work at a London hospital.

The pair allow doctors to visually examine and communicate with patients, whether they are in another part of the hospital or even another part of the world.

Meet Your Organ Match Online

Nonprofit Web site MatchingDonors.com matches those in need of transplants with altruistic donors

By Catherine Arnst, BusinessWeek Online

The Internet can do more than help you find a date -- it can help you find a kidney. Since last October, MatchingDonors.com, a nonprofit Web site based in Canton, Mass., has been helping patients who desperately need a new liver or kidney find living donors who take altruism to a new level.

New technology key to U.S. healthcare

Investing in information technology is essential to the future of the American healthcare system, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said.

Source: Big News Network

Leavitt said the U.S. government should lead the way in adopting technology to boost both healthcare and the economy in the United States.

Painkillers Designed Especially for You?

Scientists Examine the Genetic Basis of Pain to Help Patients More Effectively

By ANDREW CHANG, Associated Press

May 11, 2005 -- As part of his research, Dr. Jeff Mogil scoops up lab mice, one at a time, into specially designed cardboard and cloth pockets and holds each of them over a vat of hot water.

The mice don't seem to have a problem getting in the pockets, Mogil said. "It's dark and smelly in there."

New sex gel may combat HIV infection

Virginia Beach - A United States medical school has received $24-million to finish testing a new contraceptive gel that may also fight HIV infection.

Source: Independent Online

The third phase of clinical trials - the last stage before possible US government approval - will be conducted in India and the African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Uganda and South Africa.

Fears over deadly new HIV strain

DOCTORS have warned that a new strain of highly drug-resistant HIV that leads to the rapid onset of Aids could find its way to Scotland.

By RICHARD GRAY, scotsman.com

Health officials in New York have discovered a man with a form of the virus that is resistant to three of the four drugs used to combat the disease.

Normally HIV can take up to 10 years before it develops into Aids, but the new strain damages the immune system at a far greater rate, so it becomes Aids within a couple of months.

Cell Phones May Pose a Risk to Children

New study points out the potential hazards of long-term mobile phone use.

By Laura Rohde, IDG News Service

Children may be more vulnerable than adults to the potential health risks of using mobile phones, according to a U.K. study released this week, which urged that nonessential phone use by children be discouraged.

Military Seeks Tech Tools to Train MDs

The military sees technologies from the entertainment industry as potential tools for honing the skills of medics.

Source: ABC News

They could better simulate the difficult conditions and types of wounds medics are likely to encounter during war time, said Dr. Greg Mogel, West Coast director of the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center.

Mobile phones 'alter human DNA'

A laboratory study finds mobile phones damage human DNA - but does not show they harm health.

Source: BBC News

Radio waves from mobile phones do harm body cells and damage DNA, a laboratory study has shown. But the European Union-funded Reflex research did not prove such changes were a risk to human health.

iPod for Medical Images

The iPod is not just for music any more. Radiologists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and their colleagues at other institutions from as far away as Europe and Australia are now using iPod devices to store medical images.

Source: RSNA News

"This is what we call using off the shelf, consumer market technology," says Osman Ratib, M.D., Ph.D., professor and vice-chairman of radiologic services at UCLA. "Technology coming from the consumer market is changing the way we do things in the radiology department."

Doctors Use Video Games to Hone Skills

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - If Dr. James Rosser Jr. had his way, every surgeon in America would have three indispensable tools on the operating room tray: a scalpel, sutures, and a video game controller.

By Ben Berkowitz, Reuters

Rosser looks like a football player and cracks jokes like a comic, but his job as a top surgeon and director of the Advanced Medical Technologies Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York is to find better ways to practice medicine. At the top of his list -- video games.

Satellite System Puts Doctors in Ambulance

Communication System to Use Satellite to Virtually Place Doctors Inside Ambulance in Transit

Source: ABC News

PITTSBURGH - For paramedics in rural areas, responding to frantic calls for help is at times akin to doing a high-wire act without a net. Mountains, valleys, bad weather and long distances between hospitals make communication with emergency room physicians spotty at best and nonexistent at worst.