A Smart Football Helmet Monitors Players' Health

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 10:28 in Health & Medicine

Football championships, coaches say, are won during preseason workouts. So football players, from high-schoolers up to the pros, report to mini-camps every summer to run windsprints and engage in full-contact drills. Broken bones and blown-out knees are the typical player's biggest concern, but 39 football players, mostly high-schoolers, have died from overheating since 1995. read more

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