Tag: chronic traumatic encephalopath

NFL: League admits football link to brain disease CTE

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The NFL’s top health executive Monday became the first senior league official to acknowledge a link between football-related head trauma and the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Jeff Miller, the NFL’s vice president of health and safety, was pressed at a roundtable organized by the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives on whether there was indeed a link between the hard-hitting gridiron game and neurodegenerative diseases […]