WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health is ending its partnership with the NFL to study concussions and brain disease, with more than half of the $30 million the league pledged unpaid, according to ESPN. “The NFL attempted to use its ‘unrestricted gift’ as leverage to steer funding away from one of its critics. “There are no current research plans for the funds remaining from the original $30 million NFL commitment,” NIH told ESPN in a statement. Among college football players involved in the study, 91 percent were diagnosed with the disease. A number of NFL players who committed suicide in recent years were subsequently been diagnosed with CTE.

Source: Huffington Post July 29, 2017 00:45 UTC