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October 28, 2011

Pittsburgh’s ‘Concussion Town Huddle’ Postponed – But Not Concussion Inc.’s!

A program entitled “Town Huddle: Concussions in Sports” was scheduled to be held next Tuesday at the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum in Pittsburgh. The event (co-sponsored […]
October 28, 2011

Ugly And Getting Uglier: San Diego Chargers’ Kris Dielman Suffers Post-Concussion Seizure on Team Plane

Kris Dielman, an offensive guard for the San Diego Chargers, suffered a “violent” and “scary” grand mal seizure on the team plane returning from Sunday’s game […]
October 27, 2011

Matt Chaney and Stefan Fatsis Add Value to the National Football Debate

Matt Chaney, the football-and-health polemicist who is very familiar to readers of this blog, and author of the fine book Spiral of Denial, is cited at […]
October 26, 2011

Random Note on What the Free-Spendin’ Linda McMahon’s Money Buys

Almost exactly a year ago, weeks before the U.S. Senate election in Connecticut, in which Richard Blumenthal defeated Linda McMahon, someone emailed me, “I have a […]
October 26, 2011

‘How Federal Tax Dollars Rigged Sports Concussion Research — A Story the Senate Commerce Committee Won’t Tell’ … today at Beyond Chron

Led by Tom Udall of New Mexico, who evidently thinks bashing the Riddell Revolution football helmet video on YouTube is as American as Mom and apple […]
October 25, 2011

Open Letter to Senator Boxer: Help Me Shake ImPACT Founder Mark Lovell’s Grant Applications Loose From NIH

BY FAX – 202-224-0454 Senator Barbara Boxer Dear Senator Boxer: As both a constituent of yours and a journalist investigating the national sports concussion crisis, I […]
October 25, 2011

Senate Commerce Committee’s Sounds of Silence on ImPACT Concussion Software Founder Mark Lovell

I look forward to reading Mark Lovell’s National Institutes of Health grant applications, whenever I receive them. In my experience, a journalist almost always picks up […]
October 25, 2011

NIH Jerks Us Around on Release of ImPACT Concussion Software Founder Mark Lovell’s Shady 2002-05 Grant Applications

Yesterday I raised the question of whether Mark Lovell (of ImPACT, NFL, WWE, UPMC, etc., etc., etc.) had fully and ethically disclosed the glaring commercial conflicts […]
October 24, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Did ImPACT Concussion Software Developer Mark Lovell Disclose Conflicts of Interest in Federal Grant Applications?

Mark Lovell – consultant for the National Football League and World Wrestling Entertainment, director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Concussion Program, and co-owner of […]
Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick