Exer-Gaming is
one of the fastest growing arms of the gaming industry: video games
that physically put you into the action...and it's not just the
manufacturers that are touting them: it's the medical community as
well. A recent Canadian study concluded that game-bike users were thirty percent
more likely to exercise than users of regular stationary bikes, and
burned more calories than the regular riders in each session. All this
makes Exer-Gaming a perfect fit for aging baby-boomers, who make up
twenty five percent of American gamers, but are the least physically
active of any age group.
Hi all-
My name is Andrew and I work for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Starting Monday, we are doing a series on arthritis with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Dr. Jon LaPook. I thought it might be of interest to everyone.
Device
makers are now creating knees just for women (who are more often than
men stricken by arthritis, but until now have been stuck with man-sized
joints). Dr. Sanjay Gupta will scrub in on a surgery to replace a
woman's knee. Her doctor will explain how women's knees are built vs
men's and take a pounding differently.
Resurfacing Hips
Hip
resurfacing is the newest kind of surgery for replacing joints,
especially good for younger, active patients. It removes less bone
than traditional joint replacement. Pain relief is immediate; and
recovery is easier. Hip resurfacing is catching on in the U.S. after
much success in the U.K. Several new devices are awaiting FDA
approval. Dr. Sanjay Gupta will play racquetball with a man who had
his hip resurfaced and is back on the court.
Deep Nerve Stimulation
There's
a new way to treat osteoarthritis through pain therapy using deep nerve
stimulation. No surgery necessary. The technique is called,
"Biowave," and it works better than any other nerve stimulation because
it blocks the transmission of pain signals in a specific body of
tissue. A pilot study of biowave pain reduction in patients with knee
pain concluded that with nerve stimulation, the patients did not need
pain medication. Dr. Jon La Pook Reports.
Well whether you're from CBS or not, thanks for the heads up. Sounds like it could be very interesting!Dang, I want to have my whole body resurfaced!
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ME TOO!!!!! Hi again, everyone -
I hope everyone got a chance to see today's CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. We've added a fourth part to the series--so the series will now run through this Thursday. Below is a description...sounds pretty cool!
Exer-Gaming
Shouldn't we be getting paid to read this?
Yep, resurfacing...I could think of many things...shoulders...wrinkles...tummy's...yep big business.
He's for real. i just did a search for CBS evening news with Katie couric. You can read all about it. Thanks for the heads-up ANdrew. Shoot looks like I missed monday's. That would be the one I would be interested in.Dear Andrew of CBS:
I would be more impressed with an in-depth report into the AMA, pharmaceutical corporations, health insurance companies and their lobbyists paying off our elected officials in DC, crime capitol of the USA. The AMA owns 99% of health care, isn't that anti-trust?
Your subject's solutions piece doesn't answer the question as to why research monies are withheld by the US Government into rheumatoid arthritis, pediatric rheumatology, or autoimmune other than AIDS. Why does the FDA get less monies, and no power on followup after Phase IV drug approval? Patients have to die from lethal drugs before the FDA can take action? Oh, that's right, like in Zelnorm, the drug manufactuer supposedly withheld the bad Phase I, II, III testing results from the FDA, got approval, then got yanked after a fatality. No more happy tummy commercials.
Your subject's solutions piece will, however, make alot of money for these "after the damage is done", treatments. It doesn't answer why rheumatologists don't have set guidelines on how to diagnose an RA patient, which on average is now taking 9 years, and the damage is already done by then. Or strict guidelines on what to do once a diagnosis is made i.e., baseline blood work, xrays, bone density tests, ad nauseum.
We need help before, not after the fact. Pro-actively yours, Cathy
I saw this posted on other arthritis boards, too, but under a different screen name. Did CBS have all their interns googling 'arthritis'? Or is the marketing department actually involved in this? Or sales? I mean, drug cos. buy nearly all the ads on the evening news - is CBS now directly targeting those viewers by altering their news programming? NEWS programming? Do they want to go to their sponsors and proclaim we have the most infirm audience of all evening newscasts???Gupta was the lapdog on CNN who accused Michael Moore of cherry picking. Funny watching MM and Gupta 'debating'.
Andrew should be in the marketing department. Interns tend to get coffee. LOL It's his job it deliver an audience so that ad revenues can be figured out via Nielsen.
CBS is known for 'skewing old' in demographics. They haven't been able to get the coveted Gen-Xers and Gen-Y-ers.
So they ran with what they got.
And, yes, they sold out to Pfizer.
Pip
I appreciate the "heads up"! My mother just had a total knee replacement and actually managed to break her tibia so she had to have that surgery completely redone....her left knee has been taking the load so now that one needs done.
I would like to see more on Rheumatoid Arthritis, focusing on the rarety of some kinds such as mine, cystic Rheumatoid Arthritis. My hats off to any info or special on TV about Arthritis.
Yeah, the AMA controls this and that and all the pharmaceutical companies do this and that.......but sometimes you have to be thankful for what is being done for those in need or for those with great insurance ( like my mom) who are able to have the knee replacements. Sometimes you have to be thankful for the research that made the drugs....we all hate the prices, but what can we do? Maybe that needs to be investigated, I eman really problem solved rather than just reported on...who knows. I would love to have my right hip done...but no-can-do ....no insurance, no job, no money......I was one that fell through the cracks. It can be a bit dark down here and not much fun when you are really sick.....but I am a survivor! *wink*
Again, thankyou for the "heads up". For whatever reason or however you found this site to inform, it is appreciated.
BTW: CNN does a tremendous amount of work with students at BAll State University in media buiding ( or communications) the students typically did a piece on the ACT disabled computer lab which we all participated in. CNN also were outstanding in allowing the students to choose a topic to report on ( at least they used to years ago) I am sincerely appreciative of that and believe me, the profs at Ball State University really make certain that the students do a worthy job at it. I was proud to be a part of it and proud that the BSU students did such a magnificent job.
Jode
Jode,
You are so right, of course. I guess I just hope for the old fashioned days of News like Murrow - instead of sensational and/or product placement pieces for sponsors.
It was a sad day when news had to turn a 'profit'.
Pip
I lost it with the second post with the additional of gaming. I am not against promoting these obviously necessary advances in patients who need these devices. I just think early detection, appropriate treatment, proper drugs, etc. might mitigate the necessity for what the series is about. I am a dreamer, it will never happen.So true...ahhhhhh the difference between information and advertising....it seems it has turned into a fine line between newscasters doing journalism and newscasters performing a commercial for high priced procedures. products, and medicine.
jode