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Jeff Astle s daughter continues fight to highlight links between football and dementia

Jeff Astle s daughter continues fight to highlight links between football and dementia
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How all Australians can get a Covid vaccine safely including Denham Hitchcock

How all Australians can get a Covid vaccine safely including Denham Hitchcock
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Second Deputy National Rural Health Commissioner announced

The Hon Mark Coulton MP Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government Queensland Health’s Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan, took on a new role this week as Deputy National Rural Health Commissioner, which will see her play a key role in the Federal Government’s agenda to increase access to rural health services and address rural workforce shortages. Federal Rural Health Minister, Mark Coulton, and National Rural Health Commissioner, Prof Ruth Stewart, met with Prof Nowlan today in Brisbane to congratulate her and discuss priorities for the role. Minister Coulton welcomed Prof Stewart’s engagment of Prof Nowlan, recognising the wealth of experience and expertise Prof Nowlan brings to the position.

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Teen girl footballers have double concussion risk of boys

BBC News By Philippa Roxby image copyrightGetty Images image captionTeenage girls were more likely to be concussed on contact with the ball or a goalpost than another player Teenage girls who play football run nearly twice the risk of concussion as teenage boys and take longer to recover, a study of US high school football suggests. It found concussion in girls was less easy to spot and they were less likely to be taken off the pitch. Females are known to be at greater risk of concussion although it s not understood why. It s time to focus on girls - and not just boys, UK researchers said.

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FIFA Showed No Enthusiasm To Fund Brain Research Despite Heading-Dementia Link, Says Expert

FIFA Showed No ‘Enthusiasm’ To Fund Brain Research Despite Heading-Dementia Link, Says Expert © AP Photo / Peter Cziborra Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202103091082292366-fifa-showed-no-enthusiasm-to-fund-brain-research-despite-heading-dementia-link-says-expert/ In 2002 former England footballer Jeff Astle passed away aged 59, and became the first British player to have been confirmed to have died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. But progress on reducing the risk to footballers has been painfully slow in the last 19 years. One of Britain’s top neuropathologists has told a committee of MPs more needs to be reduce the risk to elite level footballers and other sportsmen of concussion and brain trauma leading to dementia.

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