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Dylan Cleaver: The time has come for rugby to face the truth
Rugby has a choice to make and it's not an enviable choice.
Former All Black's head-knock battle: Judge leaves door open for claims
Ex-All Black's CTE diagnosis rejected but judge says it is not the end of the matter.
Sydney brain bank seeks sporting head injuries
Former Junior All Black John 'JJ' Williams believes he could be living with brain injury.
Two footballers dead, both giants in the air - are they linked?
CTE is often linked to the NFL but a number of British footballers have died of dementia
First for NZ rugby: Non-contact grade starts tonight
Union aims to boost playing numbers by widening rugby's appeal.
Dylan Cleaver: Why I've changed my mind about kids and contact sport
Head injuries are the focal point of health concerns in contact sport.
Exclusive: End contact sport for kids, experts warn
The long-term dangers of kids playing contact sports could outweigh the benefits.
Why we don't need to worry about Crotty
Big symptomatic accidents like Crotty's are not the real problem in collision sports.
Eddie Jones: 'It was a bit like a horror movie'
No matter what he does, nothing seems to be working for the England coach.
Concussion danger worse after 25 games a season
Rugby still leads the way in ACC claims and costs.
Rugby star donates his brain to science
EXCLUSIVE: Junior AB John "JJ" Williams hopes his story will help others to seek help.
A bad week for concussion deniers
Study that found 110 cases of CTE in 111 brains inherently biased but vitally important.
Former All Black takes his own life
All Black who objected to sporting contact with apartheid South Africa, dies in Australia.
Former test star joins concussion fight
NZ-born player agent joins crusade against concussion saying bigger, faster players could lead to frightening health issues in the future.
Rugby concussion study goes global
Groundbreaking Kiwi study into the health of retired rugby players to increase in scope.
Rugby star's journey back from concussion
A serious concussion left rugby player Riki Hoeata in a "fog". He's now fighting his way through it.
Rugby damaged my brain: test star
COMMENT: There has been serious attention paid to concussion in sport recently.
Young designer strikes a blow
A young Aucklander has won a top technology prize for a concussion-detecting mouthguard as the links between sport concussion and dementia continue to grow.
Midweek Fixture: Getting ahead of a head problem
Sports concerned that the media narrative on concussion is ahead of the science are masking their own deficiencies.
'Impact of tackles like a car hitting a wall'
Former players whose dementia symptoms have only recently been linked to concussion will be the first of many cases to come forward, says former Wallaby.
Editorial: NZ Rugby sensitive to players' dementia
Few newspaper revelations have had a greater impact in rugby-mad New Zealand than those of Herald sportswriter Dylan Cleaver's in March.
NZ Rugby to investigate concussion-dementia link
NZ Rugby has partnered with Statistics NZ to try to determine whether the lasting impacts of concussions while playing rugby increase the risk of dementia.
Rugby research caught in the breakdown
Last year representatives from World Rugby, NZ Rugby and AUT delivered the results of a study into the health of retired rugby players. Behind the united front, there were divisions.
Even mild head knocks risky
A Kiwi study has found that even "mild" traumatic head knocks can cause long-term problems for the victims.
Don Battley: Let's hope rugby stories make dementia a 'sexy' illness
COMMENT: What gets to me is that our modern culture can fly a machine to Mars to sample its soil, but can't understand what makes the human brain fail.
Rugby and dementia: Let's keep talking
Sandy McNicol will never go down as one of the great All Blacks, but he might go down as one of the most principled.
Alan Duff: Dementia diagnosis hardest on families
COMMENT: A departure from being a meaningful human being. We don't wish it on any family. The good news is a cure is becoming increasingly likely.