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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Pro Football Players and Brain Injury: New Guidelines
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Host: Bruce Japsen
Guest: Julian Bailes, MD
The National Football League has placed its strictest rules yet on managing concussions. What is the medical profession to make of such a policy and what are its broader implications for players' long-term health and for future medical research? Dr. Julian Bailes is a founding member of the Brain Injury Research Institute, which is affiliated with the Blanchette Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University and possesses a brain and tissue bank that houses 20 brains for future research. He is also professor and chairman of the department of neurosurgery at...