Hazards: Football Head Injuries, Not So Cut and Dried
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Researchers have found that there is no way to know for sure which blows will lead to a concussion.
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Injuries suffered in Lancashire incident 'not life-threatening'
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Fifteen years in the NFL have taught Emmitt Smith more than just how to slip tackles. He's also become an example of how to fight through injury.
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Five St. Louis Rams developed infections after sustaining turf burns in 2003, and a few members of the San Francisco 49ers developed infections after playing the Rams early that season, a medical researcher said Friday.
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Concerned about a potential quagmire at Gillette Stadium because of heavy rains Wednesday on the uncovered field, the NFL yesterday sent a representative to gauge the playing field.
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A common treatment for head injuries could be killing rather than saving patients, experts warn.
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NEW YORK  - Body shaving and "turf burns"  seem to be two of the factors that raise football players' risk  of contracting an increasingly common antibiotic-resistant skin  infection, U.S. health officials report.
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NEW YORK  - College-age soccer players may show some degree of brain-tissue shrinkage, a small study has found -- adding to evidence that the sport carries a risk of long-term brain injury.
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In the wake of the Patriots being punished by the NFL for illegally videotaping defensive signals of Jets coaches, some say momentum is building to allow a communication device in a defender's helmet, thus negating the use for signals altogether.
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A former Harvard quarterback has developed a promising  technology to protect football players from concussions.
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A study of more than 2,500 retired NFL players finds that those who had at least three concussions during their careers had triple the risk of clinical depression as those who had no concussions.
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There are many reasons to jump around in Madison. For one, that scary good Badgers football team. By Adam Duerson. The Wisconsin Badgers football team raise their helmets during the start of the game.
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[Health India]: Washington, Dec 17: A new study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that the human eye is unable to detect an offside position during a football match.
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NEW YORK  - High school football players   may run a lower risk of sustaining a head injury if their   helmets are fitted by certified athletic trainers rather than   coaches or other individuals, new study findings suggest.
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LONDON - Doctors have been giving steroids to head trauma patients for more than 30 years, but the first major study of the practice has shown they are useless and may even have killed thousands of people.    Experts said the findings, published this week in The Lancet medical journal, are "a complete and alarming surprise for all."   Head trauma, usually from car crashes, violence or falls, is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults in the developed world, and globally second only to HIV in causing the death of people under 40...
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As is his custom, Patriots coach Bill Belichick would shed no light on the injuries that ravaged his team before and during yesterday&#39;s 34-20 drubbing at the hands of the Steelers.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday denied that the situation described by former Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson -- that players return too quickly from concussions -- was rampant throughout the NFL, but said both he and the Players Association are continuing to fund studies about the long-term effect of concussions and how to prevent them.