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The Great Flu: Global Pandemic Prevention
You didn’t really think that this game would be the last of its kind right? Well of course not – because people are still buzzing about H1N1, especially because flu season is coming up soon. Recently,...
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Mission Pneumonia: Education on a Silent Disease
November started off with a great example of raising awareness on a health issue that is affecting people around the globe. On Monday, November 2nd, the very first World Pneumonia Day got underway with...
View ArticleXbox 360 to Revolutionize Electronic Medical Records?
For those of you unfamiliar with Microsoft’s push to enter the healthcare field, take a look at HealthVault, a set of patient-friendly applications which allow families to organize and store their...
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Comic-Style Health Game Teaches Sex Ed in Canada
The MiddleSex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is a Canada-based teaching organization designed to promote wellness, prevent disease and injury, and protect the public through the delivery of public health...
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Please Downsize My Plate !
One of the first things that stuck my mind when I left France in 1998 for United States to start an 18 months post-doctoral internship at Hershey College of Medicine (Penn State University, PA), was...
View ArticleHealthSeeker: Lifestyle Change via Facebook
While perusing Twitter the other day, I checked out a tweet from the well respected Manny Hernandez (@askmanny) who heads up the Diabetes Hands Foundation (DHF). The Foundation aims to improve...
View ArticleAnother Look at HIV/AIDS in Health Games
Recently one of the foremost resources on HIV/AIDS, AIDS.gov, published an interview with a Yale School of Medicine researcher on the usefulness of health games. After giving a brief overview of the...
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HG Interview: Greg Kendall of Allergies Attack iPhone Game
Family health inspires mobile health game design. HealthGAMERS is pleased to introduce you to Greg Kendall, President and CEO of Kendall & Son Solutions LLC. Greg has begun a family game...
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Reach Out Central: Mental Health Games and the Future
Using the Internet to host games that promote preventative or therapeutic strategies for mental health is a relatively fresh concept that deserves some attention. Reach Out Central (ROC) is a serious...
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Will Avatars, Robots and Video Games Replace Doctors?
Health care’s most vexing problem. I have never met Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar of Partners HealthCare’s Center for Connected Health, Susannah Fox of Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project,...
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