Member of NFL Hall of Fame diagnosed with degenerative brain disease

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 10:21 in Health & Medicine

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that a recently deceased member of the NFL Hall of Fame suffered from the degenerative brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) when he died, becoming the 10th former NFL player diagnosed with the disease.

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