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National Football League (NFL) commissioner Roger Goodell has agreed to turn over medical records to America's House Judiciary Committee after refusing to acknowledge a connection between head injuries from American football and later brain injuries and diseases.

John Conyers, chairman of the committee, asked for the records and said he wants the panel to determine whether action needs to be taken to prevent head injures in football.

Gay Culverhouse, former executive of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and daughter of former owner of the club, Hugh Culverhouse, testified before the committee at its hearing on football brain injuries on Wednesday.

Speaking to the New York Times this week, she said: "I've got to see that someone stops this debacle before it gets any worse."

The newspaper reported that the NFL and the players union have added programs to aid former players including the 88 Plan, which helps pay expenses for players with dementia.

But it said for the hundreds of those whose cognitive decline falls short of dementia, the disability plan is no help.

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