A top official has acknowledged a link between football and CTE, the degenerative brain disease.
Players have responded to the surprising retirement of 49ers linebacker Chris Borland with supportiveness and concern about their own health.
Concern for player safety is at an all-time high, but it's unclear whether it's the responsibility of schools, coaches, or youth leagues to take measures to protect kids.
Recent research makes clear the drastic effects of head injuries on young athletes, and advocates are asking states and schools to do more.
Today’s concussion crisis gives the misimpression that the sport’s hazards were only recently discovered. In fact, they’ve always been evident. So why do adults let children play?
New evidence of the danger of the sport
A new technique could revolutionize how a neurodegenerative disease afflicting contact sports is treated.
How a puzzling autopsy report opened a new chapter in football history
Loopholes in a proposed settlement with former players shift costs away from the $9 billion-a-year industry that profited as athletes suffered head trauma, and toward the public.