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The progressive brain disease can be caused by repeated trauma to the head and has caused serious health problems for ...

After killing four and taking his own life, Shane Tamura — a former football player at two L.A.-area high schools — left ...

Sports are one of the few spaces in American society genuinely guided by ideas of fairness and meritocracy. But AAU ...

A Washington state law enacted in 2009 is credited with significantly reducing the recurrent concussion rate in youth sports.

Meiko Locksley, one of 152 athletes diagnosed with CTE before even reaching the age of 30 as part of the Boston University ...

CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and repeated head injuries are likely the cause of it, according to the Mayo Clinic. CTE permanently destroys nerve cells in the brain, worsens over ...

What is the force of a hit to the head your kid sees on the field? How are helmets tested to absorb them? The Virginia Tech ...

It began as a national health crisis for America's most popular sport and eventually reached its way to the beginning levels of youth contact sports. It spawned an avalanche ...