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Practices for football, cross country and other high school sports are starting up this month, and many athletes will do two-a-day workouts in the August heat. Last year, four high school football players died of heat stroke, according to the Annual Survey of Football Injury Research...

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With sports camps starting up again, many schools are putting measures in place to prevent concussions. But what if some people are just genetically predisposed to getting them? Ryan Tierney, a professor of kinesiology at Temple, has been studying the genes of college athletes to figure out whether this is the case...

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A study published on bmj.com today reveals that public bicycle sharing schemes save lives and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Although the aim of the increasingly popular public bicycle sharing schemes in cities worldwide is generally to ease traffic congestion, it also promotes health...

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Medtronic Inc. has announced that it has provided a $2.5 million grant to Yale University to oversee independent, systematic reviews of the safety and efficacy of its recombinant bone morphogenic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) product...

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A Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon suspects that the nagging pain and inflammation that women can experience in their knees may be different from what men encounter, and she has been chosen to lead a novel U.S.-Canadian study to explore the question...

Many children return to sports such as soccer, football, cross-country and volleyball when they return to school. Jon Divine, M.D...

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Most children and teenagers carry their schoolbooks and other supplies in backpacks during the school year. "When used correctly, backpacks are the most efficient way to carry a load and distribute the weight among some of the body's strongest muscles," says Eric Wall, MD, Director, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery...

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