The deadly brain disease CTE can begin in children who suffer head injuries and concussions while playing youth football.

Explaining how the cap works, Dr Faure says: "The light sensors monitor changes in oxygen around the surface of the brain - a ...

Every fall, more than a million young Americans don helmets and shoulder pads to play high school football. But this year, questions are intensifying over the risk youth athletes face from repeated ...

Penn State Health has treated more child e-bike and scooter injuries in 2025 than in the past three years combined ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — A new statewide program is designed to improve outcomes for children in Florida by reducing the number of babies affected by Abusive Head Trauma. Thousands suffer from ...

The team found that neurons from individuals with postmortem CTE diagnoses had specific abnormal patterns of somatic genome ...

Each year, the US performs more than 93 million computed tomography (CT) scans, many of which offer limited clinical value. For patients with mild head injuries, CT scans are often ordered reflexively ...

Preventable injuries and deaths kill more Americans in the first half of life than any other cause, including cancer. Yet the ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—most often found in athletes playing contact sports—is known to share similarities ...

Robert Roberson, the Palestine man facing execution for the death of his 2-year-old daughter, during a hearing at the Anderson County Courthouse in Palestine, Texas on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. We are ...