Game Boy Effective Kid Tranq 37
yali writes "A new study shows that Game Boys are better than tranquilizers for calming children before surgery. Kids allowed to bring Game Boys into the OR showed no change in anxiety (compared to a small increase with tranquilizers, and a big increase in a control condition.) Kind of puts a different spin on analogies between games and drugs."
Child's Play (Score:5, Informative)
I normally don't plug things, but this is too relevant to the article to ignore, and it can help out a lot of kids.
Re:No... Maybe? (Score:3, Informative)
Also, the GBA SP is backlit, and you can mod the original GBA to add backlighting, so this is not really a big deal.