Archive for: brain injury
Football and Brain Injury: “Something Needs to Change”
By Ashley Festa
Doctors diagnose more than 200 concussions in NFL players each year. That’s unacceptable, says Shyam Popat, BA ’15, especially considering the long-term consequences...
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Top Army General Says Brain Injury Blood Test to be “Huge”
By Rose Cahalan
It happens all the time on the football field: A linebacker takes a hard hit to his head, shakes it off, and plays the rest of the game. He may have a concussion,...
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Over the Edge and Back
By S. Kirk Walsh
A promising young personal-injury attorney, Joseph Huerta represented people who had been hurt in all sorts of devastating ways—and then it happened to him. Photo...
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This Texas Ex Is Singing His Cowboy Songs in Music City
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How a Former Marine Built UT’s National Championship Weightlifting Team
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Two Award-Winning Professors (and One Hollywood Celebrity) Make Science Cool
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The Way Back: Hoop Dreams
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Good Reads Q&A: This Children’s Book Brings Social-Emotional Learning to Life in Technicolor