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# Brain Disease

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'Gentle giant' NFL player Jackson had CTE brain disease
The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver died earlier this year.
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Dec 16th 2021, 9:30 PM
Brain disease found in two Australian rugby league players
They said the unnamed subjects were both middle-aged former professionals.
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Jun 27th 2019, 12:14 PM
At least 31 children in India killed by toxin in lychee fruit
The disease claimed a record 150 lives in 2014.
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Jun 13th 2019, 9:37 AM
'He’s like a lot of other pros - in a nursing home for their last days'
Ron Saunders, who guided Aston Villa to the 1981 English League crown, is suffering from dementia
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Aug 14th 2018, 6:17 PM
15 years after promising research, FA announces study into football's links to brain disorders
The governing body first committed to exploring the topic in 2002.
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Nov 23rd 2017, 7:55 PM
Norway to kill 2,000 reindeer to eradicate disease
The herd is to be eradicated by 1 May 2018.
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May 8th 2017, 9:40 PM
Drug tests make Alzheimer's treatment 'a real possibility'
The drug is still at an experimental stage but lab tests on mice show it blocks disruption of the brain’s defence system, something that boosts neurodegenerative disease.
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Oct 10th 2013, 10:20 AM
Belfast man suffering from variant CJD passes away
The funeral of Jonathan Simms, 26, will take place in Belfast today. He was one of the longest surviving victims of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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Mar 10th 2011, 11:07 AM