CHICAGO (AP) — Research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease linked to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from athletes in the National Football League, college and ...

Parents with kids involved in youth football have been addressed in a worrying update on brain injuries. Steven Wolf, MD, of Boston Children’s Health Physicians in Hawthorne, New York, and a member of ...

A major 2026 study of over 72,000 youth cases shows football linked to 19% of sports-related brain injuries—more than any ...

Parents of youth football players have received a disturbing warning regarding brain injuries. A recent study conducted by Steven Wolf, MD, of Boston Children's Health Physicians in Hawthorne, New ...

American football is a high-octane contact sport in which repetitive head impacts (RHI) are a common sight. Researchers ...

The report doesn't confirm that the condition is common in all football players; it reflects high occurrence in samples at a Boston brain bank that studies CTE. Many donors or their families ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A major breakthrough in brain health research suggests that red‑light therapy could significantly protect football players from long‑term head injuries. A new study published in the ...

To date, nearly 350 former NFL players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after their death.

In former college and professional football players, a new study has found higher levels of inflammation were associated with worse brain structure, which in turn was related to worse memory. The ...

In former college and professional football players, a new study has found higher levels of inflammation were associated with worse brain structure, which in turn was related to worse memory. The ...

A new study of former American football players looked at how a history of repetitive head impacts may be associated with cognitive and behavioral symptoms later in life. Researchers found higher ...