A Video Game That Helps Kids Fight Cancer

Fri, 02 May 2008 18:08:26 GMT

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Fighting cancer is no game. But thanks to HopeLab, there is a video game designed to help empower kids with cancer.

The video game is Re-Mission and it features an intrepid nanobot called Roxxi who journeys through cancer patients bodies, destroying the cancer cells, fighting the infections, and dealing with the side effects usually associated with different cancers and cancer treatments.

If you think it’s just another video game, think again. To ensure that Re-Mission was on track to help cancer suffers, a controlled research study was undertaken prior to the game’s release. 375 cancer patients between the ages of 13 and 29 from the United States, Australia, and Canada were recruited to test the games effectiveness.

Here are the results…

Young people who played Re-Mission maintained higher blood levels of chemotherapy and showed higher rates of antibiotic utilization than those in the control group.”

Re-Mission is available free of charge to young people with cancer.

View the tralier

here

Tags: health, technology

Yellowstone Killing Fields

Fri, 02 May 2008 17:42:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is the largest death toll since the 19th century, when we nearly wiped the species off the planet.

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We already knew that this has been a gruesome year for the buffalo of Yellowstone National Park. But a recent flight by park service personnel has given us a new understanding of just how terrible the toll has been on America’s iconic free-roaming herds.

The flight was an aerial survey to assess the health of the rapidly diminishing herds. The resulting park service estimates surprised even those of us who have been fighting for fundamental changes to the unnecessarily brutal buffalo management practices of the park service and State of Montana. Their population models estimate that only 1,950 to 2,150 buffalo are left in the park. That means that more than half of the 4,700 animals that were a part of the herds going into the winter were killed off---most of them rounded up for slaughter by Montana wildlife officials as the buffalo approached park boundaries. This is the largest death toll since the 19th century, when we nearly wiped the species off the planet.

Tags: environment

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