administration acted indecisively and waited too long, letting the balloon float across the continental u.s. for days. president biden says the military advised him there would be less danger to the public in shooting down the balloon once it got over the ocean. lawmakers are reacting sharply and along party lines. i want to start by doing something that i don t do very often, which is commending joe biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. that was the right thing to do. that is absolutely what the president should have done. unfortunately he didn t do that until a week after it entered u.s. airspace. they re saying we should have shot down the balloon the minute we saw it. i would use two words in answering these gop criticisms. they are premature, and they are political. presidents have the ability to go before a camera, go before the nation and basically explain these things early on, and his failure to do so, i don t understand that. i don t understan
event, control of the house of representatives is all but gone. democrats can feel the house seats slipping through their fingers, as some experts project republicans could pick up maybe even 30 seats, and they only need five to win back the majority. some in the democratic party are already performing free autopsies. sometimes people want to just not feel as if they are walking on egg shells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democraticment i think, again, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. tonight we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican-led house of representatives might actually look like. the house gop sees these pending election results as a repudiation of where president biden and democrats are currently leading the country. and that is part of what is driving their legislative ag
whether this year saw an increase in the number of head injury s or the substantial resources that the nfl is placing on this issue is detecting more and more players are being pulled out of the game. you know, there are some technologies that some players are using. there s something called a q collar that i think about 50 players in the nfl wear, which is basically a neckband that increases the venous pressure that is purported to prevent the brain from sloshing around so much during some of these impacts of the and a lot of money is being spent on trying to change helmet architecture. but, again, the irresolvable problem is that the sport revolves around players coming together. i watched the pro bowl today, which for the first time was flag football, and that s a snooze fest. no one wants to watch flag
why do you think it is that lower levels of the game have been slower to change? well, they may not have the resources to bring the medical personnel to bear and to bring experts to bear. but the research shows that the earlier you start playing and if you continue to play you start playing at a pee wee level and through high school and into college, the earlier you start and therefore the longer you play, the greater your chance of having some sort of lasting damage somewhere down the road. it s just a fact. we had my wife and i had dinner with a family whose son plays lacrosse, and he had a concussion. they recommended this thing called a q collar. i m not sure if you have heard of it. i have. it s this thing that pinches your neck and uses the technology woodpeckers use as an extra degree of protection for the brain. but you haven t heard of it? no, but i m not an expert in
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In this case, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared a new over-the-counter device designed to protect children aged 13 years and older from sports-related traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Q30 Sports Science, LLC was granted marketing authorization of the noninvasive device, called Q-Collar. It is a C-shaped collar that applies compressive force to the neck and increases blood volume to help reduce movement of the brain within the cranial space, which may occur because of hits to the head. The device may reduce the occurrence of specific changes in the brain that are associated with brain injury.