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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 20th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB Sports Correspondent Onyi Afoaku speaks to a local researcher who hopes his head trauma study will make high school football safer. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Fraud Newsreel on Better Beware – your weekly consumer-watchdog segment …

Head trauma in sports like football has been a growing concern in the sports world. This has been partially fueled by the discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive brain disease resulting from too much head trauma. There have been numerous studies on the effects of head trauma in sports. For Dr. Kei Kawata, a professor in Indiana University’s …