Harvard to Study Concussions in NFL

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According to CNN, the National Football League Players Association has chosen to work with Harvard University on a $100 million project over 10 years regarding the institution’s lasting history of football. The purpose of the funding is to “diagnose, treat and prevent” players' injuries and illnesses. In the past few years, concussion-related brain disease has greatly affected the health conditions of NFL players. Dr. Lee Nadler, dean for clinical and translational research at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the proposed study, said that "No one has ever studied these players before and there have been postmortem studies looking at the brains of previous players but not the players today." In this project, more than 100 Harvard researchers are included and the NFL is trying to find some groundbreaking results of the effects of brain disease on players’ lives with hopes of making football a safer sport. What are some possible long-term consequences of this study? How will the results influence future NFL players? Check out the following link and video to learn more: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8894250/harvard-university-tabbed-100-million-nflpa-injury-study-report