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According to a suspiciously brief newswire report, 24 year-old Briton Amanda Flowers has become a "sex addict" after falling off her Wii Fit board. More »
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The war on terrorism can be a real hassle, just ask anyone who has flown recently. Fortunately, science and the Wii have joined forces to try and cut-down on those mammoth airport security lines with the Fidget Monitor. More »
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There's little doubt that Blizzard's World of Warcraft can be addictive. Most of you probably know someone addicted to it. But we doubt you know anyone stupid enough to pay $14,000 to kick said addiction. More »
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In April, we showed you a mobile x-ray unit adorned with Pokemans, intended for Japanese hospitals. But would you believe it's not the only Pokemon-branded x-ray machine on the market? More »
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PediSedate's premise is largely summed up by the headline, as the device is genuinely intended to reduce the stress of going under the knife—and wearing dorky headgear—by gassing kids while they play Game Boy games. More »
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A 10-year-old girl left paralyzed by a virus four years ago is learning to walk again thanks to her doctors and a copy of Wii Fit, Ireland's Herald.ie writes. More »
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William Vitka over at the New York Post has a bittersweet post up that deals with how games are provide escapism in a New Jersey habilitation center. From the piece: More »
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Nonprofit organization HopeLab joined forces with game developers, cancer experts, psychologists, cell biologists and patients to create a game that could education and entertain young cancer patients. The result? Re-Mission, a shooting game starring Roxxi the nanobot who destroys cancerous cells and deals with treatment side effects. While young patients might be old enough to be responsible for their treatment says Reuters, they might not fully understand how deadly it is to skip medications — which often make them feel ill, cause their hair to fall out or lead to acne. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=264630&view=rss&microfeed=true Remember in Peanuts when Sally had a lazy eye and had to wear a patch and there were pirate jokes? Well, if that sequence were re-made today, Sally might spend the whole time waxing fools in Counter-Strike: Source, thanks to an experimental approach that uses VR and video games to get both eyes to work together the way good, strong, morally upright eyes should. The Beeb has the scoop on this new application of entertainment technology. More »
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Geez, all this story is missing is a murder. Ready to reinforce negative gaming stereotypes? Anyhoo, here goes: More »
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Hooray! Video games are not only healthy, but also make you a better doctor. Studies carried out at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York show that surgeons that gamed were better than doctors that didn't. More »
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A 13-year-old girl became the youngest author to be published in a South African medical journal with her research on Playstation Thumb. Safura Abdool Karim conducted interviews with 120 classmates about the medical problems they have because of excessive game play. She found that the symptoms of Playstation Thumb include blisters, numbness and tingling and that it is similar to Repetitive Strain Injury. More »
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How much do you value your gaming skills? Enough to cancel that totally sweet all-night LAN party you were planning? The results of a recent study may have serious gamers take notes on their sleep patterns. More »
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Tycho and Gabe over at Penny Arcade did something worthwhile while at E3, unlike the rest of us, they met with the person behind a project called HOPE. Hope is a group of doctors who believe that access to online gaming can help hospitalized children. The idea is that the games may even help reduce their pain. The tow decided give the group, which is doing research on their theory, a donation on behalf of Child's Play and plan to continue to support them during this year's donation-fest. More »
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The director of the Advanced Medical Technologies Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York is a huge fan of video games. The surgeon goes as far as to say that you have to "be be a Nintendo surgeon." He has been teaching his Top Gun training, which uses Super Monkey Ball and other real world eye-hand coordination games, for more than a decade. Using games to train surgeons is all well and good, but I don t want to find any sutures spelling out high scores and names in my belly: DRLUV 12:18 More »
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The Game Boy is a more powerful anti-anxiety drug than, well, an anti-anxiety drug, according to a new medical study conducted in New Jersey. I was all ready to mock the crap out of this study, with jokes about games that put you to sleep and the intelligence of doctors from New Jersey, but this just floored me. The charts show that the Game Boy is actually a more effective tool for relieving pre-anesthetic anxiety than midazolam, a powerful drug used specifically for that purpose. More »
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Fat Swedish kids blame video games, not food, for their obesity. About 40,000 Swedish kids spend 35 hours a week gaming, and 31 percent say they've tried to stop playing but can t. This excessive game play has apparently caused Sweden s children to swell up like zeppelins. I can t figure why they would be spending so much time inside, what with the frigid cold and 16-hour nights. More »
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How's this for a shitty choice: Games may cause glaucoma, but they may also help prevent lazy eye. Maybe the pediatric ophthalmologists who developed the diagnostic PC game, VisionQuest 20/20, didn t realize they were creating something that Japanese researchers say can lead to blindness. Now that s irony for you, but is it dramatic or Socratic? More »
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