Sports Medicine
10 Eating Tips for a Healthier College Football Bowl Season
Bowl season brings specific eating challenges for football fans. Tailgating is often centered on binge eating and drinking. Anxious and celebratory supporters often live...
Armstrong Facing $12 million Lawsuit after Drugs Admission on Oprah Winfrey
Lance Armstrong is set to be sued next week for $12 million (£7.5 million/€9 million) by SCA Promotions, the insurer who covered the bonuses...
The Culture of Football Is the Real Danger
The NFL may have bought itself out of a concussion trial it never wanted, but that doesn't mean the subject will go away.
The critical...
National Football League Goes Long with Harvard
The National Football League (NFL) has announced a $100-million project with Harvard University to investigate the injuries associated with players in the league. The...
Russian Athletics Federation President Defends Country’s Doping Record
Russia should not be singled out unfairly as having a major doping problem despite several high-profile cases involving its top athletes, it was claimed...
Ben Johnson Documentary Raises Questions About the Integrity of Sports
To mark the impending 25th anniversary of the 1988 Seoul Olympic 100-meter final—where as you may recall the winner, Ben Johnson, ran into a...
‘Head Games’ Forces Viewers to Confront Concussions in Sport
Christina Master is a pediatrician and sports medicine specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and fully understands the dangers concussions pose to athletes...
NFL’s Latest PR Stunt
We have another PR stunt by the NFL.
U.S. researchers are spending $14 million in NFL funds on a series of research projects aimed at diagnosing...
Disease Caused by Repeat Brain Trauma in Athletes May Affect Memory, Mood, Behavior
New research suggests that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease associated with repeat brain trauma including concussions in athletes, may affect people in...
Sir Craig Reedie in Prime Position to Become New WADA President
Britain's Sir Craig Reedie is being lined up to take over as the new head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after his only...
