Report: NFL Confronted NIH on Brain Study Researcher

Last December, the National Football League backed out of a $16 million study on brain disease because it reportedly did not approve of the study’s researcher. The NFL denied that report. Now, that denial has come under question.

ESPN’s Outside the Lines reported Thursday that three NFL officers confronted the National Institutes of Health last June after the NIH selected Boston University researcher Dr. Robert Stern — who had been critical of the league and its concussion lawsuit settlement with former players — to lead the study on football and brain disease.

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