How High Tech Competition Is Transforming NFL Helmets December 23, 2019 By Tim Booth Long gone are the days of the leather shell and single-bar face mask. Today’s football helmets are technological marvels, using...
Amazon Providing Software That Could Help NFL Prevent Concussions December 6, 2019 By Dina Bass, Matt Day and Eben Novy-Williams Amazon.com Inc. and the National Football League announced a deal to use the tech giant’s cloud-computing services to help solve...
Players Accuse NFL of Trying to Delay, Rewrite $1 Billion Concussion Settlement January 14, 2019 By Maryclaire Dale The National Football League abruptly last week dropped its plan to challenge approved dementia diagnoses in a landmark concussion case...
NFL Hands Off $35 Million to Concussion Researchers November 21, 2018 By Barry Wilner The National Football League is awarding more than $35 million in funding to five organizations conducting research into diagnosis and...
Liability Insurers Win Right to Question NFL Executives, Doctors in Concussion Cases May 2, 2016 By Chris Dolmetsch National Football League executives may for the first time have to testify about what they knew of concussion risks after...
Florida Researchers Find 40% of Retired NFL Players Had Brain Injury April 11, 2016 More than 40 percent of retired National Football League (NFL) players in a recent study had signs of traumatic brain...
NFL Acknowledges Head Trauma Disease CTE Link for First Time March 16, 2016 An NFL official has acknowledged a link between football and the brain disease CTE for the first time. Jeff Miller,...
Amateur Athletes, Not Just Pros, Could Be at Risk for Brain Damage: Mayo Clinic December 2, 2015 By John Tozzi In the movie Concussion, Will Smith plays the doctor who discovered the condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE,...
Late NFL Player, Announcer Gifford Had Brain Disease Tied to Concussions December 1, 2015 By Christopher Palmeri and Lisa Wolfson Former professional football player and TV commentator Frank Gifford, who died in August at age 84, suffered from a degenerative...
NFL Blows Whistle on Concussion Study Using Helmet Sensors February 26, 2015 By Kavitha Davidson, Bloomberg View The National Football League has quietly announced that it is suspending a pilot program to track player concussions with helmet...