The National Football League has quietly announced that it is suspending a pilot program to track player concussions with helmet sensors. The sensors track the frequency and velocity of hits to the head, and will still be used in other …
Marijuana is casting an ever-thickening haze across NFL locker rooms, and it’s not simply because more players are using it. As attitudes toward the drug soften, and science slowly teases out marijuana’s possible benefits for concussions and other injuries, the …
Roger Goodell believes the NFL’s new player safety rules are working. Goodell participated in a series of meetings on player health and safety at the league’s headquarters Wednesday. He said the feedback he has received from coaches, players, officials and …
The judge overseeing litigation brought by thousands of former National Football League players over head injuries ordered the parties into mediation ahead of a ruling on the league’s request to dismiss the lawsuits. U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia …
Lisa McHale wishes her husband had lived long enough to learn more about the links between concussions and long-term brain injuries. Her husband Tom, an All-Ivy athlete who played in 87 NFL games from 1987 to 1995, died of an …
Two wrongful-death lawsuits over the suicide of Pro Bowler Junior Seau have been consolidated with NFL concussion litigation in Philadelphia. A key hearing in the NFL case is set for next week, when lawyers for thousands of former players will …
The National Football League and General Electric Co. are teaming up to improve the diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries amid growing concerns about sports-related concussions in youth and professional sports. On Monday they announced a $60 million effort with …
At least four lawsuits blaming the NFL for concussion-related dementia and brain disease will be consolidated in Philadelphia, Pa., and more could follow. A U.S. judicial panel approved requests Tuesday by the NFL and plaintiffs lawyers to try similar cases …