Media Room - In the News - 2006

Warning: Playing these videogames may be good for your health

The following is an excerpt of an article by Nick Wingfield
Originally published October 23rd in The Wall Street Journal

In some cases, health-care providers are the target audience for games. One is Pulse!!, a training game that will allow civilian and military health-care professionals to practice their clinical skills, including during catastrophes like bioterrorism attacks. Pulse!! is being developed by BreakAway Ltd. of Hunt Valley, Md., on Texas A&M University's Corpus Christi campus with $4.3 million in federal grant money from the Navy's Office of Naval Research.





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