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The FDA just approved the first prescription video game:
It might not look like much of a video game, but Akili Interactive's EndeavorRX, formerly Project EVO, may go down in history: it's the first video game that can legally be marketed and prescribed as medicine in the US.
That's the landmark decision from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is authorizing doctors to prescribe the iPhone and iPad game for kids between ages eight and 12 years old with ADHD, after it underwent seven years of clinical trials that studied over 600 children to figure out whether a game could actually make a difference.
According to the company's favorite of the five studies, the answer is yes: one-third of kids treated "no longer had a measurable attention deficit on at least one measure of objective attention" after playing the obstacle-dodging, target-collecting game for 25 minutes a day, five days a week for four weeks.
"Improvements in ADHD impairments following a month of treatment with EndeavorRx were maintained for up to a month," the company cites, with the most common side effects being frustration and headache — seemingly mild compared to traditional drugs, as you'd hope from so-called virtual medicine.
That said, we are talking about a study by doctors who work for the game's developer, according to disclosures at the bottom of the study, and even their conclusion is that the results "are not sufficient to suggest that AKL-T01 should be used as an alternative to established and recommended treatments for ADHD."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @05:45AM (3 children)
OK, Millenniall!!1!!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @07:23AM (2 children)
You're welcome, best part is the government grant I got to make one geared towards boomers. It can take any popular pundit and generate life like segments that the user gets to select from, and it gradually shifts the available stories to present fact based information that the user can research on their own and ultimately fix the misinformation they've been fed as facts.
I'm sure this approach will make most boomers angry or self-righteous, but it is "bipartisan" software since many humans are drawn to extremes no matter their ideology.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @02:50PM (1 child)
Please make this app. I'll have my mom "update" grandpas phone for him, and then we can be free of Rush.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 18 2020, @07:46PM
Sorry pal no can do.
Not all is lost, I found a documentary that might provide some useful tips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist_(film) [wikipedia.org]