Wednesday's health and safety news from the world of football:
- KSHB-TV in Kansas City reported that the University of Kansas football team will use concussion-sensing mouth guards beginning this spring.
- Former NFL player Brendan Ayanbadejo wrote for Fox Sports about four former players who are suffering from ALS.
- Sports Techie reported on a Head Health Network's smart fabric for inside the helmet and registers each hit taken in real time through heat mapping.
- WNCN-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, looked at how concussion research is helping to create rules and technology and make football safer.
- WRAL-TV in Raleigh featured some of the new technology that is aimed at concussion prevention.
- The Cleveland Plain-Dealer profiled Jay Alberts of the Cleveland Clinic, who has helped to develop a concussion app that helps to detect head injuries.
- Philly.com's Sports Doc blog looked at blood tests to detect concussions, which it says are still in the research stage.
- The La Jolla (California) Light reported on concussion research by UC San Diego aimed at high school football players.
- Healio featured the findings of a study in the Journal of Neurotrauma that says eye tracking may help quantify concussions and brain injury severity.
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor
