College Athletes With Slow Recovery After Concussion May Have Good Prognosis Most returned to play within 60 days of injury Jan 18, 2023
Here's What Damar Hamlin's Cardiac Workup Might Look Like There are several diagnoses to rule out before concluding on commotio cordis, experts say Jan 12, 2023
NFL's Damar Hamlin Walking, Released to Buffalo-Area Hospital Buffalo Bills safety to undergo tests for cause of his cardiac arrest Jan 09, 2023
Damar Hamlin's Collapse and the Psychological Aftermath The traumatic consequences weigh on players, coaches, and spectators Jan 04, 2023
Damar Hamlin's Cardiac Arrest: A Cardiologist's Perspective Commotio cordis has rarely been described as the result of a tackle in football Jan 03, 2023 video
Concussion Expert's Papers Retracted Did misquotations alter concussion science and care? Oct 10, 2022
Doctors Say Pfizer Program Discriminates Against Whites; NFL Player Sues Team Doctor A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts Sep 22, 2022
The Internal Conflict of Being a Ringside Doctor The aftermath of a 2019 fight nearly broke me Sep 15, 2022
IV Nutrition: Few Proven Benefits for Growing Trend Among Athletes Sports medicine researchers concerned about high vitamin levels in the blood of pro players Aug 16, 2022
Medicare Claws Back Money for Dubious Birth-Tissue Stem Cell Shots Government seeks to recoup more than 2 years of payments for unproven treatments Mar 16, 2022
Malone Harassed Doc Who Reported Him to Medical Board; Pain Clinic Fraud Scheme This past week in healthcare investigations Feb 23, 2022
Former Football Stars Team Up With CDC to Promote COVID Vaccination The campaign, first launched in March, underwent a reboot with the spread of Delta Jan 02, 2022
NFL Players More Likely to Be Diagnosed With, Die of ALS Study finds nearly four-fold increased risk for progressive neurodegenerative disease Dec 16, 2021
Simone Biles Is Sending a Message: Olympians Are People First Mental health is essential to sporting success Jul 29, 2021
Inside Olympic Precautions: Three Team Doctors Dish Physicians satisfied with strong safety measures during controversial Tokyo games Jul 28, 2021
First Close Look at Presumed Myocarditis Cases After COVID Vaccination Case reports suggest a favorable clinical course after hospitalization Jun 17, 2021
Guns for Vaccinations; IU Health Joins the Mandate Club; NFL Ends 'Race-Norming' A daily roundup of news on COVID-19 and the rest of medicine Jun 03, 2021
Op-Ed: Let the Olympic Games Be Canceled Amid continued crisis, now is not the time for celebrating athletic achievement May 20, 2021
Criteria Proposed to Diagnose Clinical Syndrome Tied to CTE Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome definition applies to research, not clinical care Mar 15, 2021
Device to Prevent Athletes' Brain Injury Wins FDA Nod Low-tech neck collar keeps brain from "sloshing" during moderate impacts Feb 26, 2021
Most College Football Head Impacts Occur in Practice, Not Games Findings may have NCAA policy implications Feb 01, 2021
FDA OK's First-Ever Synthetic Implant for ACL Tears Bioresorbable device fills gap between torn ligament ends Dec 16, 2020
Bone Marrow Improves Healing With ACL Grafts MRI confirms better outcomes than with allograft alone in randomized study Dec 04, 2020
Post-COVID Heart Scans Without Symptoms: Not a Good Idea Multidisciplinary group urges against general population screening Sep 15, 2020
Tackle Football in Childhood: Does Age Matter? Early exposure may not be linked to short-term concussion recovery Sep 09, 2020
Why These Athletes Went Ahead With Their Elective Surgeries Sports medicine physicians weigh in on special treatment Apr 22, 2020
Bad News for Tau PET Tracer in CTE Only modest correlation between imaging result and actual pathology in ex-football player Jan 07, 2020
Boxers, MMA Fighters Show Distinct Brain Injury Patterns Can brain region volume be a biomarker for future CTE? Dec 23, 2019
Brain Injury After Concussion May Linger Some effects persist a year after college athletes return to play Oct 16, 2019
Dementia Tied to White Matter Rarefaction in Football Players With CTE But factors not associated with head trauma emerge, too Aug 05, 2019
Suppressed Testicular Function 'Mostly Reversible' After Steroid Abuse But process can take upwards of 9 months Mar 26, 2019
Pro Soccer Players Show Higher ALS Risk Incidence is rare but more frequent than expected, especially in young players Feb 27, 2019
Heavy Workouts Linked to Hard Arteries But subclinical calcified plaque didn't translate into mortality risk in study Jan 30, 2019
AMA Tangles With 'Gene Doping' Guidelines Also: emergency room evidence; impact of corporate investors in healthcare Jun 12, 2018
Young Athletes Show Invalid Cognitive Scores at Baseline Results may affect return-to-play decisions after concussion Mar 12, 2018
NBA Players: Nearly 1 in 6 Has Abnormal ECG Study raises questions of whether yet more specific criteria are needed Dec 07, 2017
From Hopeless to Healer: Persecuted in Nigeria, Stonewalled by the NFL Early struggles prepared Bennet Omalu for character assassination in the U.S. Sep 20, 2017 video
CTE Risk in Football Players Exaggerated? (Health News Review) Media reports have run past the science Jul 28, 2017
The Yips, Potential CTE-Depression Link and More New sports psychology articles raise research questions May 11, 2017
