Video game helps young people blast cancer
ReutersPosted: April 2nd, 2006 by Steve Trinward
“Saif Azar, a 14-year-old video game fan, said a new title called ‘Re-Mission’ helped arm him with the knowledge of how to fight cancer after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2003. ‘It was perfect, actually. It helped me understand the things that were going on in my body,’ said Azar, who started playing the game as part of a clinical study and continues playing today as he wraps up his treatments. Roxxi, the main character in ‘Re-Mission,’ is a gutsy, fully-armed ‘Nanobot’ who seeks out and destroys cancer cells throughout the body. HopeLab, the game’s maker, said the results from its scientific study involving 375 teen and young adults at 34 medical centers in the United States, Canada and Australia showed that young people who played ‘Re-Mission’ were more likely to stick to their medication regimens than those who did not.” (04/02/06)
December 11th, 2005 at 9:50 pm
I’m not surprised that Mirecki was forced out as Department Chair.
After all, who long could someone who made a public proposal to teach a course denigating the civil rights movement as a “slap in the face” to the “darkies” effectively continue in the role of chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies?
Similarly, making a public statement of one’s intent to give a “slap in the face” to the “fundies” will greatly harm one’s effectiveness as chair of a Religious Studies Department.