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From this article, there's a report on two companies developing a blood test for biological markers of brain injury. If the NFL wants to prove it's serious about preventing concussion, it might want to step up and fund one of these efforts. That $5 million they spent on a rather worthless and biased investigation could have gone a long way towards paying for clinical trials.
Hrusovsky says his company is considering developing a handheld device that could assess the severity of an injury on the sideline of a football game. He says it should be possible to bring such a device to market by the end of 2017, but to pull that off Quanterix might need the help of an industry partner to help pay for expensive clinical trials. In the meantime, he says, it is realistic that a so-calledlaboratory developed test, which could not be administered on the sideline but is subject to fewer regulatory hurdles, could be ready within six months.