Friday, December 15, 2006

Video games ease sick kids', parents' pain (Reuters)

Video games ease sick kids', parents' pain
(Reuters)


   

In this publicity photo released by Nintendo of America, actress Jamie Lee Curtis (R) talks to Nintendo executive Don James (L) and patient Gus Luna as they celebrate the 5,000th Fun Center sponsored by the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, October 12, 2006. Over the last decade, researchers around the world have done hundreds of studies probing the value of video games and other forms of virtual reality to help children, and their parents, cope with medical-related anxiety and pain. (Bob Riha Jr./Nintendo of America/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - When 11-year-old Gus Luna was able
to play one of his favorite video games while recovering from
exploratory brain cancer surgery in intensive care, his mother
breathed a big sigh of relief.






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