Young athletes who train strenuously in a single sport have a new rule of thumb for their practice schedules: don’t spend more hours than your age in training during a given week. Sports medicine researchers at the Loyola University Medical… Read More ›
Changes in the brain’s white matter may help explain why some former professional football players develop cognitive dysfunction and depression later in life, according to a study published in JAMA Neurology today. High-profile suicides of former National Football League (NFL) players… Read More ›
A small study of college ice hockey players in Canada in which physicians and other independent observers watched games from the stands and evaluated injured players indicates that college hockey players’ concussion rates there may have improved over the past… Read More ›
US Army researchers have linked high consumption of energy drinks among military personnel in Afghanistan with sleep problems that may cause some to fall asleep during briefings or while they’re on guard duty. The survey, published in today’s Morbidity and… Read More ›
