Items Tagged ‘Derek Boogaard’
January 16, 2012
In Debate About Fighting in Hockey, N.H.L.’s Experts Say More Research Is Needed
The determination that the hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard had a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated hits to the head when he died in May at 28 has fueled a debate among medical experts over whether the sport should ban fighting… Dr. Michael J. Stuart, an orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., […]