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September 18, 2015, 10:27 am ET · by Jason M. Breslow Nearly four in five football players examined by one of the nation's leading brain banks tested positive for the disease now at the center of the debate over concussions in football.
January 29, 2015, 2:42 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow and Chris Amico For football fans everywhere, the NFL's concussion crisis has raised uncomfortable questions about what it means to love a sport that's been shown to cause lasting harm to its players.
December 5, 2014, 11:04 am ET · by Robert Collins NFL head injuries are down in 2014, as compared to the previous two years, but the league still struggles to keep some concussed players off the field.
September 30, 2014, 2:57 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow The nation's largest brain bank focused on the crippling disease known as CTE has now found the condition in 96 percent of players it has tested posthumously.
September 19, 2014, 2:50 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow If data from the past two years is any guide, more than 150 NFL players will suffer a concussion this NFL season.
February 4, 2014, 3:25 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow Which positions are most likely to be injured? Why are one-third of all concussions left off NFL injury reports? Here are five takeaways from FRONTLINE's "Concussion Watch" project.
January 30, 2014, 4:31 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow The 2013-14 season was supposed to be the year the NFL put its concussion crisis behind it. Instead, it may now be remembered as the year the taboo around football head injuries was all but erased.
January 21, 2014, 2:07 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow This year's Super Bowl will be played between two teams that have combined for 11 of the 152 officially reported concussions in the NFL this season.
January 15, 2014, 2:53 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 150 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Round 2 of the postseason, at least three more appeared to go down with a head injury.
January 7, 2014, 6:39 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow With the NFL's regular season now over and the playoffs underway, the total number of concussions taking place becomes harder to tally by the week.
December 24, 2013, 10:19 am ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 135 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Week 16, at least nine more appeared to go down with a head injury.
December 17, 2013, 12:43 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 125 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Week 15, at least seven more appeared to go down with a head injury.
December 10, 2013, 5:19 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow Head injuries sidelined 11 players this week — four of whom entered the week already having dealt with concussions a combined 19 times before.
December 3, 2013, 5:01 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 102 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Week 13, at least 11 more players appeared to go down with a head injury.
November 26, 2013, 1:36 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow As the NFL season enters the home stretch, the league is slowly but surely creeping toward the milestone of 100 concussions.
November 20, 2013, 1:07 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 80 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Week 11, at least seven more players appeared to go down with a head injury.
November 12, 2013, 2:34 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 71 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Week 10, at least nine more appeared to go down with a head injury.
November 5, 2013, 12:51 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 62 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Week 8, at least eight more appeared to go down with a head injury.
October 29, 2013, 1:42 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 58 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Week 8, at least four more players appeared to go down with a head injury.
October 22, 2013, 12:05 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A total of 53 NFL players have been sidelined by a concussion during the 2013 season, and in Week 7, at least four more players appeared to go down with a head injury.
October 15, 2013, 3:52 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow Week 6 of the NFL season saw at least six players removed from games because of possible head injuries.
October 8, 2013, 4:46 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow Week 5 of the NFL season saw at least six players removed from games because of possible head injuries.
October 1, 2013, 10:07 am ET · by Jason M. Breslow Week 4 of the NFL season saw at least five players removed from games because of possible head injuries, as well as an intriguing update on an injury from week 3.
September 25, 2013, 10:09 am ET · by Jason M. Breslow The third week of the NFL season saw at least seven players removed from games because of possible head injuries.
September 24, 2013, 12:20 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow Despite a new emphasis on player safety, a FRONTLINE analysis found NFL concussions on the rise in 2012, as half of players returned from their injuries without missing a game.
August 6, 2013, 2:58 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow This fall, FRONTLINE will air a special two-part investigation examining whether the NFL has covered up the risks of football on the brain.
July 10, 2013, 2:24 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow A federal judge is delaying her ruling on the NFL's request to dismiss the case brought by more than 4,200 players so that both sides can explore whether a "consensual resolution is possible."
May 1, 2013, 10:50 am ET · by Sabrina Shankman Despite the warning, Riddell promoted its Revolution helmet — used by players from youth leagues up to the NFL — as providing better protection against concussions.
April 29, 2013, 11:15 am ET · by Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada The NFL's intervention in the fate of Junior Seau's brain — the most prized specimen yet in the race to document the relationship between football and brain damage — was part of an aggressive strategy to dictate who leads the science of concussions.
April 10, 2013, 4:42 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow Should former NFL players be able to sue the league for brain injuries they suffered on the field? That question was the focus of a preliminary hearing Tuesday into concussion litigation filed by more than 4,000 NFL veterans.
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