Archive for category: Health

In Older Adults, Diabetes Rates Rise

In Older Adults, Diabetes Rates Rise

0 / January 30, 2008 7:48 am

Washington (dbTechno) – The number of older Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen greatly over the past ten years according to reports. A new study has shown that the number of new diabetes patients diagnosed increased by 23% from 1994 [...]

Second-Hand Smoke Causes Cystic Fibrosis To Get Worse

Second-Hand Smoke Causes Cystic Fibrosis To Get Worse

0 / January 30, 2008 7:22 am

Boston (dbTechno) – A new study has found that second hand smoke can actually make the condition of cystic fibrosis worse for patients. Second hand smoke in the form of tobacco and such has proven to be very bad for [...]

ABC Autism Drama To Air Despite Protest By Doctors

ABC Autism Drama To Air Despite Protest By Doctors

0 / January 29, 2008 4:31 pm

Hollywood (dbTechno) – ABC has come out and stated that they will air the first episode of the debut show, Eli Stone, which places a link between autism and childhood vaccines. Doctors have protested the show and asked for it [...]

FEMA Blamed For Manipulating Data On Formaldehyde In Trailers

FEMA Blamed For Manipulating Data On Formaldehyde In Trailers

0 / January 29, 2008 4:24 pm

Louisville (dbTechno) – Lawmakers have come out and stated that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is to blame for playing around with and changing scientific research which said of the danger of toxic gas in trailers which housed thousands of [...]

Schwarzenegger’s California Health Care Bill Shot Down

Schwarzenegger’s California Health Care Bill Shot Down

0 / January 29, 2008 7:15 am

Sacramento (dbTechno) – The work of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez to try and put in place a $14.7 billion plan for a new health care system in the state of California has failed as it [...]

Under Tongue Flu Vaccine To Replace Need For Shots

Under Tongue Flu Vaccine To Replace Need For Shots

0 / January 29, 2008 7:14 am

Beijing (dbTechno) – A new study from South Korea has revealed that a new way to administer the flu vaccine, under the tongue, may be more effective than injecting the flu vaccine drug. The belief is that it will be [...]

7,000 Kids Rushed To U.S. Hospitals From Cough, Cold Medicines

7,000 Kids Rushed To U.S. Hospitals From Cough, Cold Medicines

0 / January 29, 2008 7:14 am

Boston (dbTechno) – A new U.S. government study has stated that each year, 7,000 children under the age of 11 are rushed to the hospital and need to be hospitalized in emergency rooms due to them taking cough and cold [...]

Snoring And Chronic Bronchitis Linked

Snoring And Chronic Bronchitis Linked

0 / January 29, 2008 7:14 am

Hollywood (dbTechno) – A new study has revealed that a person who does quite a bit of snoring has an increased risk to develop chronic bronchitis. Chronic bronchitis is a cough which can last for weeks and keep coming back [...]

Exercise Helps Keep Your DNA Young

Exercise Helps Keep Your DNA Young

0 / January 29, 2008 7:13 am

Boston (dbTechno) – A new study was published on Mnoday which reveals that exercise helps keep people to have younger DNA comapred to people who get older without exercise. The authors of the study looked at the ends of DNA [...]

Bird Flu Death Toll Hits 100 In Indonesia

1 / January 28, 2008 10:37 am

Jakarta (dbTechno) – The bird flu death toll in Indonesia has hit 100 after it has been confirmed that a 9-year-old boy and 20-year-old woman were both killed by the virus just outside of Jakarta, Indonesia. The H5N1 bird flu [...]