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Stories you may have missed: Making football helmets safer

Posted on October 22, 2010; 10:59 am by Chris Pika

The effects of concussions on football players of all ages has been a hot topic over the past decade, and recent studies on what those brain injuries mean in later life have shed new light on what used to be … Continue reading →

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