Nearly $16 million in new funding is making its way to researchers at several universities and institutes that investigating new ways to diagnose and treat a concussion-related brain disease that has stricken many professional football payers.
But not a cent of that new funding is coming from the NFL, which has prompted criticism of the football league, The New York Times reports.
The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke issued the seven-year grant as part of a long-term study of how diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head hits in contact sports, while victims are still alive.
Currently, CTE can only be definitively diagnose by autopsy. Many former NFL and college football players who sustained multiple concussions on the field have been diagnosed with the condition.
Yet despite the implications that the research may have on football players and the NFL, no league money was included in the grant.
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What about the boxing industry, also?
ReplyDeleteThis is the new attack on the NFL after the Redskins name attack. It's all BS.
ReplyDeleteThey fund their own researchers and staff, why should they have to add funds to every research group in the world? GTFOH. Be lucky you got grants in the first place.
ReplyDeleteWe pay for and allow FIGHTING in a cage or ring, with ZERO rhetoric on the dmaage that causes, then make the NFL villains? These players had/have a choice to play the game. No one if forcing them to accept the millions of dollars going their way. They know the consequences, let them deal with it.