Young Swiss girl develops lesions from PlayStation!!!

A 12-year-old Swiss girl has developed intensely painful lesions on her hands after playing too many video games, according to a Geneva hospital.

"The tight and continuous grasping of the hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produce minor but continuous trauma to the (palm) surfaces," Vincent Piguet, a professor at Geneva University Hospital, reported in the British Journal of Dermatology. More...

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