On October 16th we held a presentation focusing on carpal tunnel syndrome. To prepare for this presentation a lot of research was done on general carpal tunnel syndrome information such as the signs, symptoms, treatment approaches, and how to decrease your risk for developing this condition. The research used for this presentation was the most [...]
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The January meeting of our support group for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s focused on passage of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA). Our new first year student, Vironica Loxley, did considerable research for the talk which was presented by Zsuzsa Tomsen and Geri Kuhn, group facilitators. Our main sources of information for the talk [...]
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Metaverse TV’s panel on health care in Second Life was a lively discussion that included the challenges of ensuring service quality, turf issues in academia, and support of telemedicine on par with face to face treatment. The segment can be found here, the panel starts at about (time marker) 20.09. I participated along with Tymeless [...]
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Masters students doing Second Life final projects and grad assistants have been hard at work developing the exhibits for the soon-to-be-launched Healthy Aging exhibit. This exhibit expands the previous Garden of Healthy Aging considerably and has its own separate site to accommodate the larger scale and number of prims. It will be accessible from the [...]
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Check out the latest from International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. My colleague Maged Kamel Boulos, with whom I worked on the Sexual Health Sim, is lead author on the newly released paper,Web 3D for Public, Environmental and Occupational Health: Early Examples from Second Life®. I was pleased to contribute a section in [...]
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