Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Study: Baseball and basketball players who peak early, die early

Baseball and basketball players, whose athletic skills peaked earlier or declined faster, had significantly shorter lifespans, according to an innovative study by Dr. Saul Newman from Oxford's Leverhulme Center for Demographic ...

Health

NFL drops all COVID restrictions

The National Football League's COVID protocols will be lifted immediately under a deal reached between the league and its players association.

Radiology & Imaging

An improved elbow MRI view for Major League Baseball pitchers

According to a pilot study published in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), the flexed elbow valgus external rotation (FEVER) view can improve MRI evaluation of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in Major League ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Virus cases plunge and LA, San Francisco come back to life

When Angeleno Wine Co. reopened its tasting room, co-owner Amy Luftig Viste teared up seeing old friends reunited for the first time since the pandemic had shuttered so many businesses it left major cities looking like ghost ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Britain's death toll from the coronavirus rivals Italy's

Britain on Tuesday became the first country in Europe to confirm more than 30,000 coronavirus deaths, and infections rose sharply again in Russia, even as other nations made great strides in containing the scourge. China ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Ice bucket challenge inspiration Pete Frates dies at 34

Pete Frates, a former college baseball player whose determined battle with Lou Gehrig's disease helped inspire the ALS ice bucket challenge that has raised more than $200 million worldwide, died Monday. He was 34.

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