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Former NFL, Georgia Tech star Demaryius Thomas suffered from CTE at time of death

ATLANTA — Georgia Tech football star Demaryius Thomas, who died in December at the age of 33 of an apparent seizure, was found to have been suffering from the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.

Tribune News Service · Jul 5, 2022

We can’t afford to be completely ambivalent about the fact that Demaryius Thomas had CTE

It's time to do more to help former -- and future -- NFL players who are putting their brains at risk.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 5, 2022

Mum who went to GP with 'hay fever' given a year to live

Suzanne Davies has defied the odds to survive for eight years since her diagnosis

Liverpool Echo · Jul 5, 2022

How do painkillers work? Pain scientists explain, from ibuprofen to fentanyl

Science’s understanding of how the body senses tissue damage and perceives it as pain has progressed tremendously over the past several years.

Inverse · Jul 5, 2022

Demaryius Thomas suffered from Stage 2 CTE

Demaryius Thomas suffered from Stage 2 CTE at the time of his death.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 5, 2022

Mum thought she had hay fever before doctors found deadly 'golf ball' tumour in brain

Suzanne Davies, 44, was diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme in 2014 and tragically given just a year to live, but has beaten the odds and survived eight more years

Daily Mirror · Jul 5, 2022

Montana’s Blackfeet tribe to use dogs to sniff out disease and contaminants

BROWNING, Mont. — Kenneth Cook used a mallet and a chisel to crack into a pig’s skull in the gravel driveway outside his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana.

Tribune News Service · Jul 5, 2022

Mum thought brain tumour symptoms were hay fever before medics discover golf ball sized mass

The busy 44-year-old told how she thought she was just tired and suffering from a pollen allergy when she began having issues with her speech and regular headaches

Irish Mirror · Jul 5, 2022

Mike Bianchi: Justin Williams is a story about courage — and draining treys

After one of the dozens of operations — this one in which surgeons cut and separated the bones in his face and skull to allow his brain to grow — a beleaguered Justin Williams looked up and said something that wrenched his father’s heart.

Orlando Sentinel · Jul 5, 2022

Mum thought she had hayfever but it was brain tumour doctors said was fatal

Suzanne vowed to not stop fighting for the sake of her husband Owen, 49, and children Lauren, 12, and Max, 15

Wales Online · Jul 5, 2022