Testicular Dysfunction May Persist Long After Anabolic Steroid Use "Need to treat not just as problem of testosterone deficiency but as a body-image disorder" Mar 09, 2021
Device to Prevent Athletes' Brain Injury Wins FDA Nod Low-tech neck collar keeps brain from "sloshing" during moderate impacts Feb 26, 2021
Most College Football Head Impacts Occur in Practice, Not Games Findings may have NCAA policy implications Feb 01, 2021
FDA OK's First-Ever Synthetic Implant for ACL Tears Bioresorbable device fills gap between torn ligament ends Dec 16, 2020
Bone Marrow Improves Healing With ACL Grafts MRI confirms better outcomes than with allograft alone in randomized study Dec 04, 2020
Pilot Study: Widespread Pre-Sports ECG Screening Feasible Report from Florida school district that mandated CV screening for young athletes Oct 04, 2020
These Forbes 400 Billionaires Made Their Fortunes in Healthcare 14 individuals, $66 billion in combined net worth Sep 24, 2020
Post-COVID Heart Scans Without Symptoms: Not a Good Idea Multidisciplinary group urges against general population screening Sep 15, 2020
Tackle Football in Childhood: Does Age Matter? Early exposure may not be linked to short-term concussion recovery Sep 09, 2020
ESC Offers Sports, Exercise Guide for Heart Disease Patients Addresses broad spectrum and specific conditions Sep 01, 2020
Why These Athletes Went Ahead With Their Elective Surgeries Sports medicine physicians weigh in on special treatment Apr 22, 2020
From Fraud to Ghana Presidency? Another Sports Doc Abuse Scandal Bad Practice: A weekly roundup of clinicians accused, convicted, or under investigation Feb 21, 2020
Bad News for Tau PET Tracer in CTE Only modest correlation between imaging result and actual pathology in ex-football player Jan 07, 2020
Boxers, MMA Fighters Show Distinct Brain Injury Patterns Can brain region volume be a biomarker for future CTE? Dec 23, 2019
When Should Kids Start -- or Stop -- Playing Contact Sports? Consensus report looks at preventing concussions in youth sports Nov 12, 2019
Brain Injury After Concussion May Linger Some effects persist a year after college athletes return to play Oct 16, 2019
Joint Injections: Are They Worth the Risk? Adverse outcomes hastening joint replacement have raised concerns Oct 15, 2019
Dementia Tied to White Matter Rarefaction in Football Players With CTE But factors not associated with head trauma emerge, too Aug 05, 2019
Suppressed Testicular Function 'Mostly Reversible' After Steroid Abuse But process can take upwards of 9 months Mar 26, 2019
Elbow Injuries Up in Youth Baseball. Are Coaches to Blame? Many admit "lack of desire" to count pitches as recommended Mar 19, 2019
Concussions in Sports: Don't Neglect Rugby Most playing for more than a few years suffer head trauma, and few get adequate treatment Mar 18, 2019
Robotic Knee Surgery: Fewer Problems, More Expensive Balancing benefits and costs now the challenge for physicians, patients and payers Mar 16, 2019
Doing Shoulder Surgery in Denver (or La Paz)? Read This 40-fold (!) increase in 30-day pulmonary embolism risk with procedures performed at high altitude Mar 15, 2019
Pro Soccer Players Show Higher ALS Risk Incidence is rare but more frequent than expected, especially in young players Feb 27, 2019
'Not a Haircut': Two Knees, Same Day ... More Risk? Evidence, experience mixed on simultaneous bilateral knee replacement Feb 14, 2019
Heavy Workouts Linked to Hard Arteries But subclinical calcified plaque didn't translate into mortality risk in study Jan 30, 2019
Concussion Serum Biomarkers Miss the Mark in Sports Blood-based markers may detect brain injury, but have limitations Nov 08, 2018
Avalanche Safety 101: Technology to the Rescue Asphyxia remains the top risk; airbags and breathing devices boost survival Oct 03, 2018
Athletes and Hearts; Best Meds for ADHD: It's PodMed Double T! This week's topics include secondhand smoke and adolescents, labor induction, screening young athletes for cardiac problems, and ADHD medicines. Aug 11, 2018 podcast
Lewy Body Disease Tied to Contact Sports More than 8 years of play linked to Lewy bodies, parkinsonism Jul 27, 2018
AMA Tangles With 'Gene Doping' Guidelines Also: emergency room evidence; impact of corporate investors in healthcare Jun 12, 2018
Young Athletes Show Invalid Cognitive Scores at Baseline Results may affect return-to-play decisions after concussion Mar 12, 2018
NBA Players: Nearly 1 in 6 Has Abnormal ECG Study raises questions of whether yet more specific criteria are needed Dec 07, 2017
From Hopeless to Healer: Persecuted in Nigeria, Stonewalled by the NFL Early struggles prepared Bennet Omalu for character assassination in the U.S. Sep 20, 2017 video
CTE Risk in Football Players Exaggerated? (Health News Review) Media reports have run past the science Jul 28, 2017
Handling Patients and Performance Enhancers Even without evidence-based steroid treatment protocol May 25, 2017
The Yips, Potential CTE-Depression Link and More New sports psychology articles raise research questions May 11, 2017
Female Athletes More Prone to Recurrent Concussion Reason unclear, study leader calls for more research Feb 28, 2017
