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		<title>Study Links Stronger Necks to Fewer Concussions</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/22/study-links-stronger-necks-to-fewer-concussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<title>Schools Must Provide Sports Opportunities for Disabled Students</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/01/28/for-disabled-athletes-a-right-to-compete-in-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Education says schools must do more to ensure disabled students are participating in sports. The move doesn&#8217;t require schools to create teams for disabled students, but they should make “reasonable modifications” to ensure disabled students have equal access to athletic programs. Read more on our companion blog, Keeping Score.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78912&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Promising Brain Scan to Detect Concussion Damage</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/25/promising-brain-scan-to-detect-concussion-damage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) are rising among football players, but detecting the condition is challenging. Researchers now say they have a way of picking up buildup of a protein that signals the disease. Read more about the test, and how the NFL is addressing concussions, on our companion blog Keeping Score.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78824&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Leather Football Helmets Could Provide a Better Defense Against Concussion</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/in-football-leather-helmets-could-provide-a-better-defense-against-concussion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we want to cut down on football concussions, should we bring back the leather helmet? Not quite, says a new study in the Journal of Neurosurgery, though the noggin-protectors of yore do at least as good of a job as modern helmets at staving off concussions. Modern helmets do a much better job of preventing deadly skull fractures. But on the type of lower-impact hits to the head you typically see in college and high school games — the constant subconcussive blows that can also cause brain damage — leatherheads do a comparable, and sometimes better, job of reducing concussion risks than today’s helmets, according to Cleveland Clinic researchers. “The fact that leather helmets were even in the neighborhood with modern helmets was surprising,” says Adam Bartsch, the study&#8217;s lead researcher and director of the Spine Research Laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Spine Health. To reach this conclusion, Bartsch says his team basically “smashed some helmets together.” In the experiments, 11 widely-used high school football helmets and two vintage turn-of-the-century models were placed on the heads of crash-test dummies. The researchers simulated head impacts at gravity-force (Gs) levels of 75 Gs or less, which are typically encountered in high school and college games. They simulated impacts at different angles – a head-on collision, a hit to the side of the head, a hit to the back of the head – and measured their effects on skull rotation, neck force, neck torque and other head movements. MORE: Study Ranks 10 Football Helmets for Concussion Safety This data was input into a software program that estimates risk of brain contusions, acute subdural hematoma (bleeding on the surface of the brain), and diffuse axonal injury (DAI), which causes the shearing of nerve cells within the brain. “Overall,” the study concludes, leather helmets and modern helmets provide a “similar protectiveness profile” during subconcussive hits. In fact, under one testing scenario, a leather helmet provided a lower level of DAI risk than any of the modern helmets. How could a leatherhead possibly be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=46521&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tracing an Infectious Virus Through the NBA</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/01/tracing-an-infectious-virus-through-the-nba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If, or when, the NBA season does resume after the lockout, teams will have to address another important off-the-court issue: infectious illness. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s (CDC) Division of Viral Diseases, an outbreak of norovirus, a highly contagious bug that causes gastroenteritis, left at least 24 players and staff members from 13 NBA teams with symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea in 2010. The CDC launched its investigation immediately after reading media reports of a &#8220;stomach virus&#8221; that had affected 20 NBA players from 13 teams located in 11 states between Nov. 28 and Dec. 8. The CDC did not provide the names of players or teams involved in the investigation, but during that time, the Orlando Magic, for example, sent four players home from a road trip because of a stomach virus, including All-Star center Dwight Howard. David West of the New Orleans Hornets was also sidelined with a virus. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen this in athletic settings in the past,&#8221; says Dr. Rishi Desai, the lead CDC researcher for the investigation. &#8220;However, it&#8217;s never been seen in professional settings.&#8221; MORE: The Lasting Damage of the NBA Lockout For its report, the CDC contacted team physicians from all 30 teams in the NBA, to assess whether any players or staff had gastroenteritis symptoms between Nov. 10 and Dec. 20, 2010. Twenty-seven teams responded. In all, 400 players and 378 staff members were evaluated for symptoms: among these, 21 players (5.3% of those assessed) and 3 staff members (less than 1%) from 13 teams had gastroenteritis. Five stool specimens were collected: four of them tested positive for norovirus. During the study period, the 13 teams played 49 games against one another. The CDC identified two instances where norovirus could have been transmitted during games. In both cases, players with confirmed norovirus infections had suited up for two &#8220;donor&#8221; teams, and four NBA staff members and players on two &#8220;recipient&#8221; teams developed gastroenteritis within 72 hours after the games. None of them had reported similar<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=46076&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former Hockey Star Rick Martin Had Disease Linked to Head Trauma</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/06/former-hockey-star-rick-martin-had-disease-linked-to-head-trauma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of years, two hockey &#8220;enforcers&#8221; — players whose primary job is to slug opponents on the ice — have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease found in victims who have suffered repeated blows to the head. Now, alarming new research reveals that you don&#8217;t have to be a hockey fighter to put yourself at risk of brain disease. Neuropathologists at the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy examined the brain of Rick Martin, a seven-time NHL All-Star who played from 1971 through 1981, mostly with the Buffalo Sabres. Martin died of a heart attack, at 59, in March (CTE can only be diagnosed post-mortem). They found that Martin, who was not a frequent fighter, had stage 2 (of 4) CTE. During his life, Martin did not suffer from any of the usual CTE symptoms, such as loss of cognitive abilities, impulsive behavior or depression. Still, the mere presence of CTE is troubling, since the disease could have worsened if Martin had lived longer. A string of recent events has caused the National Hockey League (NHL), which starts its 2011-12 season Thursday night, to rethink its player safety rules. Martin&#8217;s diagnosis will only add more pressure for reform. In January, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman revealed that concussions were on the rise, though he said the increase seemed to be caused by inadvertent contact, rather than intentional head contact from another player. The sport&#8217;s star attraction, Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, missed the second half of last season due to hits he took to the head. After suffering a concussion, Crosby had trouble concentrating, and was even afraid to drive a car. His return is still uncertain. MORE: NFL Players May Be More Vulnerable to Alzheimer&#8217;s This summer, the death of three enforcers highlighted the potential link between head trauma and mental illness. Wade Belak, a recently-retired defenseman for the Nashville Predators, died of an apparent suicide on August 31. Just two weeks before that, Rick Rypien, the former Vancouver<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=44309&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Ranks 10 Football Helmets for Concussion Safety</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/10/study-ranks-10-football-helmets-for-concussion-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No magic football helmet can prevent players from sustaining concussions. But thanks to new research out of Virginia Tech, football players, and their parents, now know which equipment could reduce the risks. Over the past decade, the Virginia Tech researchers have compiled data from more than a million head impacts at Virginia Tech football practices and games. From these statistics, scientists were able to specify the speeds and tackling angles that would most likely to lead to concussions. (More on TIME.com: Fan Rage: How Home Team Losses Contribute to Domestic Violence) The scientists tested the safety features of 10 different helmet models, measuring the accelerations, at impact, when the helmets were sped from these multiple distances and angles. The data yielded an overall STAR value — Summation of Tests for the Analysis of Risk — for each helmet. Taking these values, the Virginia Tech researchers created a ranking system: the safest helmet, the Riddell Revolution Speed, was assigned five stars — the top grade — and the least safe helmet, the Adams A2000 Pro Elite, was slapped with the label NR: Not Recommended. A paper describing Virginia Tech&#8217;s methodology will be published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. This important work could shake up the helmet market. &#8220;For the first time, consumers can go to a website and see which helmets have the best chance to reduce the risk of a concussion,&#8221; says Stefan Duma, a professor of biomedical engineering at Virginia Tech and head of the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. The problem of concussion exists at every level of football, threatening players who sustain multiple hits with long-term brain injury. Recent studies of retired pro football players have shown that a history of concussion can lead to dementia-like brain damage associated with depression, suicidal tendencies and memory loss. Studies of former NFL players also show that they are at significantly higher risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s than the rest of the population. (More on TIME.com: Football Searches for the Cause of Another Tragedy) Better helmets<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=32898&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Live Longer, Granny, Get Your Fanny to the Mall</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/11/to-live-longer-granny-get-your-fanny-to-the-mall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Longevity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feel like living longer? Grab a shopping cart. A new study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health says that daily shopping trips were associated with increased survival for the elderly. Using data from a survey of nearly 2,000 elderly (65 or over) men and women from Taiwan conducted in 1999 and 2000, and linking the results to the country’s National Death Registration from 1999 to 2008, the authors found that elderly people who shopped every day had a 27% lower risk of death than the least frequent shoppers. This finding adjusted for a host of variables, including the age of the person at the time of the survey, health habits like drinking and smoking, and financial status. Men who shopped daily, further, were 28% less likely to die, compared with a 23% reduced risk for women. But the researchers note that the key to long life may not be shopping or spending money per se. &#8220;Making purchases may not be the main purpose in shopping for elders,&#8221; write the authors, a group of public health researchers from Taiwan and Australia. They point to the survey data, which reveals that those who described their financial status as &#8220;very difficult&#8221; were more likely to shop every day than respondents who were better off. The authors see this as a sign that most people aren&#8217;t splurging while in the aisles. (You could also argue that these respondents were in tough financial shape because they shopped and spent too much.) The researchers suggest that it&#8217;s possible that people who are healthier to start tend to get out and shop more. Conversely, the act of shopping may offer a variety of benefits to health and well-being in ways that have little to do with spending money. The authors write: Elderly people may window shop, obtain prescribed drugs, bank, or walk for exercise, seek companionship and avoid loneliness. Fulfillment of these purposes may generate various health benefits. For example, elders may maintain a mall walking routine, perhaps regarded as shopping activity, although more to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=30318&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Boys, Girls Suffer Different Concussion Symptoms</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/07/study-boys-girls-suffer-different-concussion-symptoms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next time you see a girl soccer player yawning on the sidelines, don’t just assume she was up late the night before the game. She might have a serious concussion. According to a new study to be published in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of Athletic Training, girls and boys report different types of symptoms after suffering sports-related concussions. Researchers studied 812 reported concussions from 100 high schools across the nation and found that girls were more likely to suffer neurobehavioral and somatic symptoms, namely drowsiness and sensitivity to noise, than boys. Male high school athletes, on the other hand, were more likely to report cognitive symptoms, particularly amnesia and disorientation, than girls. (More on Time.com: Little Kids Playing Sports. What&#8217;s So Wrong with That?) These findings carry important consequences for both concussion management and diagnosis. “Some of the symptoms that girls seem more likely to suffer can be overlooked, especially in a hectic sideline situation,” notes Dawn Comstock, a research faculty member at the Center for Injury and Research Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and an author of the study. If a female athlete appears drowsy, it’s easy to attribute that condition to a number of possible events. Perhaps she’s fatigued from running around the field, or from a late-night study session, or because she’s anxious and probably hasn’t gotten enough sleep. She can shake it off and get back in the game, right? If she’s showing sensitivity to noise, maybe it’s because the crowd, or the band, are too loud. On the other hand, if an athlete were to start having cognitive issues like memory loss, coaches and athletic trainers would likely treat those symptoms much more seriously, and keep the player on the sidelines. From a female’s perspective, it might appear encouraging that girls are less likely to suffer scarier concussion symptoms like memory loss. But the most important step is to treat all symptoms equally, and keep a concussed athlete out of the game until a neurological pro gives a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=18605&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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