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Codswallop: how to stop boxing deaths and brain injury with a simple rule

  • Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageIf hitting below the belt, not the head, was the aim, then brain damage from boxing would disappear overnight.from www.shutterstock.com

The coronial inquest in Sydney into the death by subdural haematoma (brain bleed) of 28-year-old boxer Davey Browne has yet again seen the same predictable response about how we might prevent such outcomes in the...

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