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Brain health
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Rugby training concussions rose across three seasons, and full-contact drills doubled the risk
Match concussions get the attention, but training ones are avoidable by design. Eight seasons of English Premiership data found preseason carried 1.80 times the risk and full-contact training 2.20 times, with incidence rising since 2016/17.
Aug 28, 2026
Exergames beat doing nothing for older adults' thinking across 51 trials, on very low certainty
A JMIR network meta-analysis ranked four kinds of digital exercise across 51 randomized trials and 3,673 older adults. Screen-based exergames helped global thinking most consistently. Remote exercise produced the only robust memory gain.
Aug 26, 2026
Frail kidney patients had triple the odds of cognitive impairment across 129,868 people
Whether frailty and thinking problems travel together in chronic kidney disease had produced conflicting findings. A Journal of Nursing Scholarship meta-analysis of 17 studies settles the direction: frail patients had three times the odds.
Aug 26, 2026
Exercise improved the mental fog that follows cancer across four domains and 2,809 patients
27 trials and 2,809 cancer patients. Exercise improved how clear-headed people felt and measurably improved executive function, working memory and processing speed, with the gains still there at follow-up.
Aug 25, 2026