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MORGANTOWN, W.Va., June 28 (UPI) -- Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry had a form of degenerative brain damage at the time of his death in December, doctors said Monday.
Dr. Julian Bailes -- chairman of neurosurgery at West Virginia University and co-director of its Brain Injury Research Institute -- said Henry had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition usually found in retired football players who have sustained concussions.
Henry died at age 26 after falling out of a pickup truck driven by his fiancee and suffering a fractured skull.
Bailes said the findings are the first evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a younger NFL player with no known history of concussions.
"These interesting findings of tauopathy in a younger athlete who played football and had blows to the head, suggest an association between head trauma and the changes seen in the brain tissue," Bailes said. "I'm afraid we will continue to see this problem until we take the head out of the game."
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 2 (UPI) --
Minnesota Vikings fullback Jerome Felton was out on bail Saturday after being arrested for driving while intoxicated, jail records indicate.
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LONDON, June 2 (UPI) --
The producer of "'Slumdog Millionaire" is going ahead with plans to create a musical of the movie without British director Danny Boyle.
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MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. weather forecasters say the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be about average, despite the rare late-May landfall of Beryl.
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ROME, June 2 (UPI) --
Dogs across Italy are wagging their tails as a new ice cream for man's best friend goes to market.
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