Friday's health and safety news from the world of football:
- The New York Times reported that the NFL has ended its use of sensors in helmets to test for concussions – at least temporarily.
- Fox Sports profiled Ryan Flaherty, the athletic trainer who prepared many of the top prospects in this week's NFL Scouting Combine.
- The Associated Press reported that the Indiana senate is backing a bill requiring concussion training for more coaches.
- The Associated Press reported that Montana senators are contemplating considering a bill to make it easier for school trainers and coaches to bench an athlete suspected of having a concussion during school-sponsored club sports.
- Medical Xpress featured worked by Stanford researchers that might be providing the detailed measurements yet of concussive forces in football helmets.
- Medical Xpress also published that a study in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery that says more concussion-related protocols need to be written into law for youth sports.
- The Joliet (Illinois) Herald-News reported on a neurosurgeon who is educating young athletes on how to prevent concussions.
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor
