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Grant Backs Game to Aid People with Parkinson?s

By pete_gallagher

A California-based developer is the beneficiary of $1.1 million in grants from the National Institute of Health, which will be used to create an interactive game that assists Parkinson's sufferers.

Red Hill Studios is creating the game in conjunction with the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, according to the North Bay Business Journal. The Wii-based game will center on moving a handcar along a track, which requires a similar motion to sitting or rising from a chair—movements that those with Parkinson's have difficulty with.

Red Hill Founder Bob Hone called such grants, '… the start of what may become a massive new area of health care." Hone is no stranger to grants, having won around $7.5 million in total over the years.

Red Hill Studios is also currently working with the National Multiple Sclerosis Technology Collaborative to produce games specifically for people with MS.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on April 12, 2010 (boomark / email).