Cigna Offers Cancer-Fighting Video Game To Patients
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TechWeb - HopeLab claims that cancer patients who play Re-Mission have more successful treatment than those who don&#39;t play the game.
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The effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be rapidly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient's blood, according to a study.
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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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With child obesity rates rising,  the U.S.'s biggest health maintenance organization on Tuesday  launched an online video game to teach kids what to eat -- and  then shut down after 20 minutes.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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Immune cells taken from one person may be able to join the battle against cancer in another, says a researcher.
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Cancer patients can often feel baffled when offered a choice of treatments, a study has suggested.
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Video game players could use their thoughts not joysticks to control on-screen characters, via a gaming helmet from Emotiv Systems.
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New version of hit game gives characters a purpose in life and a chance to pass on their DNA.
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Parents who lost a son to cancer have built a website using their own funds to help other patients make sense of complicated treatment information. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 18  - Video game developers,  eager to please all consumers, are increasingly including  features that let gamers play with or against their friends.
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An experimental vaccine can trigger the body to fight a type of leukemia that largely affects adults, and can even send recipients into remission.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health use a video game to help determine the link between the hippocampus and depression. In Game|Life.
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BEIJING, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Patients of breast cancer and the like may feel happy, for a new technology -- CellSearch System -- that counts cancer cells in the blood can help predict the success of breast cancer treatments more quickly and more ...
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Video game maker needs to work on its brand management.
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Video gamers relish  violence on the screen but now players are becoming victims  themselves -- of the latest gaming technology in which a  wireless, wand-like device is used to direct on-screen action.
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Therapies that target the basic mechanisms of cancer have become the weapons of choice in the fight against the deadly disease, researchers said at a major doctors&#39; conference in the United States.