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    Opinion: The CDC should call a timeout on its partnership with the NFL

    In its collaboration with the CDC, the NFL's private agenda isn't compatible with public health objectives.
    by Kathleen Bachynski Dec 21, 2017 3 minutes
    A Denver Broncos player is attended to by trainers after a play that would force him out of the game with a reported concussion.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is our nation’s premier public health agency. It’s also one of my most trusted sources of health information. I look to the CDC to get facts I can trust on everything from childhood vaccinations to safe drinking water. But I’ve become concerned about whether its information on sports-related concussions is fully independent from influence by the sports industry.

    The CDC sometimes turns to such as the National Cancer Institute or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help out with its research

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