Archive for June, 2008

Rhapsody Supports iPod, Challenges iTunes Music Store

0 / June 30, 2008 6:43 am

Washington (dbTechno) – Rhapsody, the online music provider, is making a serious push to challenge the Apple iTunes store by adding a whole new array of songs in MP3 format, available for customers to purchase. All of the MP3 files [...]

Man On Stilts Walks 830 Miles, Raises Money For Cerebral Palsy

0 / June 30, 2008 6:37 am

Boston (dbTechno) – A man named Neil Sauter has completed quite an amazing thing as he walked for 830 miles to help raise money for United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan. The astonishing part of this is that he walked for [...]

Arizona Medical Helicopter Crash Leaves 3 Injured

0 / June 30, 2008 6:31 am

Phoenix (dbTechno) – Early Friday morning, an Air Evac Helicopter from Arizona crashed for unknown reasons on its way to pick up a patient, leaving 3 people on the helicopter injured. The medical helicopter was on its way to pick [...]

Cancer Cure Which Worked On Mice, Will Be Tested On Humans

0 / June 30, 2008 6:28 am

Washington (dbTechno) – Starting this week at Wake Forest University, a cancer therapy that managed to cure several mice from the disease will be tested on humans. The new cancer therapy involved the transfusion of white blood cells into cancer [...]

Families USA Study Puts Focus On Health Care Issues In U.S. Cities

0 / June 30, 2008 6:22 am

Washington (dbTechno) – According to a new study released by Families USA called America’s Health-Care Crisis: Cities on the Front Lines, many cities across the U.S. are being hit with major health care problems. The consumer group Families USA is [...]

West Nile Virus Hits Colorado, First Cases Confirmed

0 / June 30, 2008 6:15 am

Boston (dbTechno) – The West Nile Virus has hit the state of Colorado. This comes as the first West Nile Virus cases of the season have been confirmed in the state. The Colorado State Department of Public Health has confirmed [...]

Report Shows Adverse Events Common In California Hospitals

0 / June 30, 2008 6:12 am

Boston (dbTechno) – According to a new report released by the California Department of Public Health, California hospitals made some serious errors, or adverse events. during a 10-month period that ended in May. They found that in many cases, doctors [...]

Houston Quintuplets Healthy After Being Born 9 Weeks Early In Phoenix

0 / June 29, 2008 10:54 pm

Houston (dbTechno) – A couple from Houston, Texas, Stephen and Ellen Howell, are now the happy parents of quintuplets. The quintuplets were born 9-weeks early in Phoenix, Arizona, and are apparently healthy. The 33-year old Ellen Howell gave birth to [...]

Air Quality Beginning To Improve In Bay Area Following Fires

0 / June 29, 2008 10:48 pm

Washington (dbTechno) – The smoke from the wildfires in California is beginning to go away, and with that, the air quality in the Bay Area is starting to improve. It was just last Friday that a health advisory was released, [...]

CDC Increases Cases Of Salmonella, Tomato Source Questioned

0 / June 29, 2008 10:44 pm

Boston (dbTechno) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated the Salmonella outbreak status yet again, as there are now 810 confirmed cases across 36 states in the U.S. This comes as federal officials question if [...]