Health Highlights: Feb. 3, 2012

Concussions weren't tracked during Howe's playing career, so it's impossible to know how many the man known as Mr. Hockey might have sustained or whether there's any link between possible concussions and his dementia.

"He's a little bit worse than last year, but pretty close to about the same," son Marty told the AP. "He just loses a little bit more, grasping for words."

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