Video Game Prescriptions How did a Nintendo Gameboy become a diabetic child's ally in the daily struggle to keep blood sugar levels under control? Robert Capriccioso reports on this and other developments in the emerging field of using video game technology to fight childhood disease and promote healthy behavior.
January 10, 2005 by Robert Capriccioso Ben Duskin, 10, and LucasArts engineer Eric Johnston created âBenâs Gameâ to help young cancer patients visualize their bodies healing. Like many 10-year-old boys, Ben Duskin likes sports and video games. The L.A. Lakers top his team list, and thanks to some encouragement from his arcade-loving mom, Pac-Man really gets his gamerâs thumb going. For half his young life, though, heâs been quite different than most of his peers. At age five, Ben was diagnosed with lymphocytic leukemia, a rare, life-threatening condition that he continues to battle to this day. He and his family have had to get used to his hair loss and persistent nausea as a result of numerous strong treatments to try to kill the disease. He is currently recovering from a risky bone marrow transplant he received in December 2004. ( rest of article) http://www.connectforkids.org/resources3139/resources_show.htm?doc_id=255417 _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
