How is the conversation about lasting brain disease from repeated head knocks on the sporting field impacting parents' decisions about what sports their children play?

Contact is an essential part of footy, but there is growing evidence it can also be a grave threat to the health and welfare ...

Nick Lowden’s story highlights the question being asked by parents and players on whether Australian football is inherently unsafe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the NYPD's Crime Scene Unit examine glass with bullet holes in New York July 29, the day after the deadly shooting in ...

A man who opened fire inside a Manhattan office building and fatally shot four people left a note referencing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease linked to head trauma, ...

BOSTON — The degenerative brain disease that has besieged the National Football League for two decades with a billion-dollar lawsuit, congressional hearings, an A-list movie and an unrelenting cortege ...

This week, the late National Hockey League veteran Greg Johnson was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Johnson died by suicide five years ago at the age of 48, having played 14 ...

After Smith's sudden death at 36, his family says medical experts will examine his brain for CTE and other trauma-related ...

Four-time Stanley Cup winner Claude Lemieux died suddenly at the age of 60. His family is donating his brain to science for CTE research.

The family of former NFL pass rusher Aldon Smith has announced plans to donate his brain for CTE research following his ...