PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- More and more former NFL players are rapidly joining the class action lawsuit anticipated to be filed tomorrow in Philadelphia Federal Court.

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The House Judiciary Committee today called upon national experts and stakeholders in the fields of science and sport to better understand the effects of head injuries on players in the National Football League (NFL).

Leading medical experts at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) reported today that nine-year NFL veteran, former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Tom McHale was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease caused by head trauma, when he died in 2008 at the age of 45.

National Football League players are lionized for figuratively giving their bodies to the sport. Now, some retired players are planning to give their brains to a new center at Boston University's School of Medicine devoted to studying the long-term effects of concussions.