College Health Update

College Health Update

College Health Update

MedlinePlus sent this bulletin at 04/12/2013 01:11 PM EDT

New on the MedlinePlus College Health page:

Twelve School Football Players Die Each Year

04/05/2013 04:00 PM EDT

Each year in the U.S. an average of a dozen high school and college football players die during practices and games, according to a new study that finds heart conditions, heat and other non-traumatic causes of death are twice as common as injury-related ones.
Source: Reuters Health

College Sports Could Raise Players' Risk for Depression, Study Finds

04/05/2013 09:00 AM EDT

Compared with former college athletes, those still in school had doubled odds, possibly due to stress, researchers say


Source: HealthDay