Found below are a few news items that caught my attention this past week. I am hopeful that the titles and short commentary will encourage SFTT readers to click on the embedded links to read more on subjects that may be of interest to them.
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President Obama Faces Tough Questions from Military and Veterans
Obama was at this Army base near Richmond to take part in a ...
In yet another token concession to those concerned with repeated trauma of concussions on NFL players, Commissioner Roger Goodell announced a new initiative “intended to increase the safety of the game, specifically by preventing, diagnosing and treating head injuries.”
As reported by CNN, Goodell said:
Continue Reading →. . . the league and its 32 club owners will provide $100 million in support of engineering advancements and medical research — in addition to the $100 million previously pledged by the ...
One cannot be surprised to learn that the NFL leadership and some club owners played “foot-free” with the fact that brain-injuries suffered by NFL players may be far worse than suspected.
A New York Times story entitled “N.F.L.’s Flawed Concussion Research and Ties to Tobacco Industry,” has concluded that:
Continue Reading →For the last 13 years, the N.F.L. has stood by the research, which, the papers stated, ...
One hundred and sixty thousand troopers have been diagnosed with concussions since 2000. I bet that is a conservative estimate/data point, given the fact that the stigma of reporting a head-injury and the evolving science of diagnosis.
Nevertheless, there has been three-hundred and ten concussions diagnosed in the past five months at lovely Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan. And for in-camp/intra-theater treatment, naval medical officers have established a “one-stop shop” where you can ...
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