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Lawmakers Push
to Open Medical
Records of
Lou Gehrig

Oct 4, 2012 5:42 PM CDT

Lawmakers Push to Open Medical Records of Lou Gehrig

Mayo Clinic resists on privacy grounds

(Newser) - Should Lou Gehrig's medical records be unsealed? Some lawmakers in Minnesota think so, and they hope to force the Mayo Clinic to do just that, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune . The state legislator leading the charge says it could resolve an intriguing theory raised in a 2010 study—that...

NFL Donates $30M
to Study Brain Injuries

Sep 5, 2012 1:45 PM CDT

NFL Donates $30M to Study Brain Injuries

It's the league's biggest ever donation

(Newser) - The NFL is putting money behind its pledge to get a handle on brain injuries after years of taking relatively little action. The league gave $30 million to the National Institutes of Health today to fund research and "lead the way" on the issue, said NFL chief Roger Goodell....

Worst Part of Being a
Football Fan: 'I Still Watch'

OPINION

Sep 4, 2012 5:43 PM CDT

Worst Part of Being a Football Fan: 'I Still Watch'

The medical dangers keep making it harder, writes Travis Waldron

(Newser) - Travis Waldron watched college football Saturday, just as he has all his life. Except for the first time, he found that he "can't watch the game the way I used to," he writes at ThinkProgress . It's impossible with the drumbeat of news about concussions, chronic traumatic...

NFL Urges Judge to
Toss Concussion Suits

Aug 31, 2012 1:10 AM CDT

NFL Urges Judge to Toss Concussion Suits

Issue is a labor dispute, league argues

(Newser) - Thousands of former players suing the NFL over football-related brain injuries should have their lawsuits dismissed because the issue is a "labor dispute," the league argues. The NFL filed a motion yesterday to shut down the lawsuits, reports AP . Some 3,377 former players, including 26 Hall of...

Ex-Players
Hit NFL With
Vast Suit Over
Concussions

Jun 7, 2012 9:17 AM CDT

Ex-Players Hit NFL With Vast Suit Over Concussions

They allege that the league lied to them about brain injuries

(Newser) - More than 2,000 former NFL players will file the largest sports lawsuit in history today, combining their various concussion-related complaints against the league. The suit claims that the "NFL exacerbated the health risk by promoting the game's violence" and "deliberately and fraudulently" hid the danger of...

Junior Seau's
Brain to Be
Checked for
Damage

May 4, 2012 10:32 AM CDT

Junior Seau's Brain to Be Checked for Damage

Brain injuries associated with other players' early deaths

(Newser) - Doctors will inspect Junior Seau's brain for any evidence of injury from his football days, following an agreement with his family. Several early deaths among football players have pointed to brain injury, the Los Angeles Times notes. "The family was considering this almost from the beginning, but they...

Researchers Want
a Look at Junior
Seau's Brain

May 3, 2012 11:01 AM CDT

Researchers Want a Look at Junior Seau's Brain

To look for signs of repeated head trauma

(Newser) - Did Junior Seau have football-related brain damage? The Boston University Center for Traumatic Encephalopathy wants to look at his brain to find out, Peter King reports on Twitter today. The Center has studied the brains of a number of deceased football players, and almost every time it's found evidence...

Junior Seau's Death Might Change Our Views of NFL

OPINION

May 2, 2012 7:37 PM CDT

Junior Seau's Death Might Change Our Views of NFL

It will bring needed focus to brain injuries: Josh Levin

(Newser) - Junior Seau today joined the "disturbingly long list of NFL players who've taken their own lives," writes Josh Levin at Slate , but there's one key difference. Seau's name is so huge that it will be impossible for the NFL to avoid discussions about what'...

College Football, Your
Days Are Numbered

OPINION

May 1, 2012 1:12 PM CDT

College Football, Your Days Are Numbered

And maybe yours, too, NFL: Malcolm Gladwell

(Newser) - Author and columnist Malcolm Gladwell thinks college football—and eventually, the NFL—is headed for years of decline and possibly oblivion as concussion evidence rolls in and the lawsuits pile up . "The factor that I think will be decisive is the head-injury issue," he says in a Slate...

More Ex-Players
Sue NFL Over
Brain Damage

Dec 23, 2011 4:42 PM CST

More Ex-Players Sue NFL Over Brain Damage

2nd complaint claims the NFL covered up concussion dangers

(Newser) - Another lawsuit is being leveled against the NFL over brain damage suffered by former players. Ex-Miami Dolphins team members Patrick Surtain and Oronde Gadsden, along with 19 other players, have filed suit in Miami and are charging that the NFL deliberately omitted or concealed evidence connecting concussions to long-term neurological...

Former Players
Sue NFL Over
Brain Injuries

Dec 21, 2011 4:04 PM CST

Former Players Sue NFL Over Brain Injuries

Three ex-athletes want league to monitor all ex-players

(Newser) - Three retired football players are suing the NFL because they say they got banged up so much in their playing days it left them with brain injuries. They want the league to set up a program to monitor the problem among all former players, reports Bloomberg . The three former athletes—...

Teen Dies of Football
Brain Injury

Oct 17, 2011 3:00 AM CDT

Teen Dies of Football Brain Injury

Ridge Barden collapses on field during NY game

(Newser) - A 16-year-old New York high school athlete collapsed during a football game with a head injury and died hours later from bleeding in the brain. Linesman Ridge Barden passed out after a "blunt-force trauma" collision during the third quarter of a game in Homer. "I don't think...

Save Boxing,
It's a Worthy Fight

OPINION

Sep 18, 2011 9:35 AM CDT

Save Boxing, It's a Worthy Fight

For many young people, rewards of boxing outweigh risks

(Newser) - The American Academy of Pediatrics last month came close to recommending a ban on boxing for children and teenagers altogether, putting the sport at risk like never before. But ending boxing would be a shame, writes Gordon Marino in the Wall Streeet Journal , who believes the payoffs of pugilism are...

Lawsuit: NFL Hid
Concussion Effects
for 90 Years

Jul 20, 2011 9:12 AM CDT

Lawsuit: NFL Hid Concussion Effects for 90 Years

75 ex-players suing the league

(Newser) - A group of 75 former NFL players is suing the league, claiming that it has been hiding the harmful effects of the concussions for nearly a century. “The NFL knew as early as the 1920s of the harmful effects on a player's brain of concussions,” the lawsuit...

Think You Have
a Concussion?
There's an
App for That

Jun 3, 2011 11:24 AM CDT

Think You Have a Concussion? There's an App for That

App asks questions, and provides a diagnosis

(Newser) - Sign No. 482,107 that smartphones are taking over the world: You can now use one to determine whether you have a concussion. A doctor at UNC teamed up with other head-trauma researchers to developed an app that helps determine the likelihood of a concussion. After the user answers a...

NBA Working on
Concussion Policy, Too

Mar 8, 2011 5:33 PM CST

NBA Working on Concussion Policy, Too

It joins hockey and football in trying to ward off head injuries

(Newser) - The NBA is consulting with an independent neurologist and may establish a league-wide policy for handling concussions by next season. The move would bring the NBA more in line with both the NHL and the NFL. In just the last four weeks, at least six NBA players have missed games...

After Suicide, NFL Player's Brain Goes
to Research

Feb 20, 2011 6:23 AM CST

After Suicide, NFL Player's Brain Goes to Research

Scientists focus on effect of repeat injuries

(Newser) - Celebrated Bears safety Dave Duerson killed himself this week at age 50, and his family is donating his brain to science to see whether his suicide may have been related to concussions and brain injuries received as a player. "He had informed (his family) at some point that he...

NFL May Crack Down
on Violent Hits

Oct 18, 2010 5:06 PM CDT

NFL May Crack Down on Violent Hits

Player safety at fore after weekend of scary hits

(Newser) - Long a culture that rewarded hits that have come ever harder, the NFL is looking to crack down on players who deliver illegal or dangerous blows to fellow players. On the heels of several breathtaking instances this weekend, the AP reports that the league is considering suspensions or fines as...

Brain Injury Eyed
in Penn Player's Suicide

Sep 14, 2010 1:39 AM CDT

Brain Injury Eyed in Penn Player's Suicide

Concussion-related brain disease found in Owen Thomas, 21

(Newser) - Doctors have discovered signs of a trauma-related brain disease in a University of Pennsylvania football player who killed himself earlier this year. The doctor who conducted the autopsy on Owen Thomas says that while chronic traumatic encephalopathy—CTE—shouldn't be considered the main cause of the 21-year-old athlete's suicide, the...

Lou Gehrig May Not Have
Had Lou Gehrig's Disease

study says

Aug 17, 2010 11:50 AM CDT

Lou Gehrig May Not Have Had Lou Gehrig's Disease

Study: ALS is sometimes misdiagnosed

(Newser) - A new study has found that some patients diagnosed with ALS actually suffered from a different fatal disease that affects the central nervous system—and implies that Lou Gehrig himself may not have had ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The study's review of the spinal cords of three...