The National Football League is donating $30 million to the National Institutes of Health for brain injury research, the largest donation in NFL history, reports the Washington Post:
It also comes at a time when the sport has been working to toughen its standards and improve its methods for diagnosing and treating players who suffer concussions, while defending itself against allegations made by retired players in lawsuits accusing the league and its teams of failing to warn them properly about the dangers of head injuries. The NFL has denied the allegations made by the former players in the concussion-related litigation.
The first set of initiatives in the NIH research funded by the NFL’s donation is to focus on mild traumatic brain injuries, said Story C. Landis, the director for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, one of the 27 institutes and centers comprising NIH.
