NPR Investigates: CTE, Desperate Patients, And The Hope For A Cure (Pt 1)
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🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
But those injuries also occur outside the world of pro sports. And as awareness of CTE has grown, so has a thriving market of dubious remedies marketed to everyday people who believe they are suffering from CTE — a disease that can't even be diagnosed until after death, through an autopsy of the brain.
In the first of two episodes, Sacha Pfeiffer of NPR's Investigative Team reports on some of those desperate patients and their hope for a cure.
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| 0:00.0 | A warning here, suicide is part of the story that you're about to hear. |
| 0:05.2 | So if you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, you can call the |
| 0:09.5 | National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. |
| 0:19.2 | Aaron Hernandez seemed to have everything. |
| 0:25.2 | A professional football career, a $40 million contract with the New England Patriots, |
| 0:30.8 | a fiance, a new baby daughter, and an appearance in the 2012 Super Bowl. |
| 0:36.7 | Aaron Hernandez is about to complete a twisted journey from the Super Bowl to prison by the |
| 0:42.0 | age of 25. |
| 0:43.5 | In the summer of 2013, the football star was arrested at his home near Boston and charged |
| 0:49.2 | with murder. |
| 0:50.2 | The star Aaron Hernandez being put into the back of that to North Alabama police cruiser. |
| 0:56.5 | Two years later, he was found guilty. |
| 0:58.3 | Guilty of murder in the first degree. |
| 1:01.0 | Murdering his friend Odin Lloyd. |
| 1:03.5 | Lloyd's body was found in an industrial park less than a mile from Hernandez's home. |
| 1:08.8 | He'd been shot six times. |
| 1:10.6 | It was a tragic story with a tragic end. |
| 1:13.4 | View at 11 now, a brain autopsy has revealed former NFL star Aaron Hernandez suffered from |
| 1:18.4 | a severe form of CTE. |
| 1:20.6 | Doctors calling it quote the most severe case they had ever seen in someone his age. |
| 1:24.5 | He was just 27 years old in April when he committed suicide in prison while serving a life |
| 1:28.8 | sentence for murder. |
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