Virtual reality boosts rehab in Israel
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On most days, a tumor on Zvulun Muola's spinal cord keeps him confined to a wheelchair, but today he is standing on a small, wooden dinghy gliding downstream, navigating between the islands of a tropical paradise.
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Virtual Iraq is a simulation created to treat Iraq war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Playing on the Nintendo Wii can improve a surgeon's performance in the operating theatre, a study shows.
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Children have always enjoyed  make-believe. Now, some new Web sites are letting them live out  their fantasies in virtual worlds using self-designed avatars.
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God games in which  players must control virtual people could be educational, says research.
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A virtual reality hand, complete with vital veins, that "feels" could help trainee nurses practice their jabs.
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Virtual reality might finally be the medium that unites the passive experience of watching television with the interactive potential of the Web.
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Researchers are developing technology for ambulances to improve communications and perhaps more importantly, place virtual doctors inside in transit.
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Look inside an animated patient to learn how doctors are treating catastrophic injuries with new technologies that meld humans and machines.
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A virtual reality hand, complete with vital veins, that "feels" could help trainee nurses practise their jabs.
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It used to be the last word in youth culture. Can a virtual world of 3-D avatars help the network get its groove back? By Mark Wallace from Wired magazine.
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By STEVEN STANEK TEL AVIV, Israel - On most days, a tumor on Zvulun Muola's spinal cord keeps him confined to a wheelchair, but today he is standing on a small, wooden dinghy gliding downstream, navigating between the islands of a tropical paradise.
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Using new technology, injured or disabled workers can talk their way to productivity.
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These days, Bethlehem's hospitals aren't just for the sick. They're becoming havens from Israel too.
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Some call it "Wiihabilitation." Nintendo's Wii video game system, whose popularity already extends beyond the teen gaming set, is fast becoming a craze in rehab therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injuries.
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Researchers have found flight simulators may help treat people for chronic dizziness.
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US soldiers returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder are being treated with virtual reality.