by Danny Sirdofsky | May 23, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – The NFL’s concussion-awareness campaign picked up more steam on Sunday when Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote a letter to 44 governors advocating for new laws protecting young athletes from returning to competition too soon after a head injury. But the...
by Danny Sirdofsky | May 12, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Listed by the World Health Organization as one of the three greatest threats to human health, antibiotic resistance has become a growing concern to infectious disease experts who fear that we are no more than two generations away from being nearly...
by Danny Sirdofsky | May 5, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board released more than 30 recommendations to improve air safety after a 16-month investigation into US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched in the Hudson River last year, was made public. Shortly after taking off from...
by Danny Sirdofsky | Apr 29, 2010 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — From the glory years of Little League baseball through the golden years of geriatric rec-league sports, concussions are nasty injuries that plague every kind of athlete. Classified by the Centers for Disease Control as a form of traumatic brain...
by Danny Sirdofsky | Apr 28, 2010 | Science + Technology
Danny Sirdofsky/MEDILL Lori Garver, NASA’s deputy administrator, addresses the controversy surrounding the future of American spaceflight. WASHINGTON — At a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies this week, NASA Deputy Administrator...
