As research accelerates towards answering the many questions about a neurodegenerative disease found in some former football players and others exposed to repetitive head impact, one prominent NFL ...

Former Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler, who died in 2015 from complications resulting from colon cancer, also suffered from the effects of the degenerative disease chronic traumatic ...

CHICAGO -- 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 ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain disease, which is associated with repeated head traumas. The Mayo Clinic notes that CTE cannot be formally diagnosed until the brain is ...

Head coach Larry Fedora of North Carolina is under fire for doubting a link between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy at Wednesday’s ACC Kickoff event. Fedora said he believes some people ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football coach Larry Fedora has sparked controversy for questioning the scientific basis of studies that link the sport to a degenerative brain condition.

The doctor who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the brain disease better known as CTE, is convinced that the condition is what drove former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez ...

Nearly all of the evidence to date linking sports concussions to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and other types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease has come from case reports, fueling ...

PHILADELPHIA — The NFL stood behind a top executive's acknowledgement that the brain disease CTE can be linked to football on Tuesday. The comments by Jeff Miller, the senior vice president for health ...

A study published in the British Journal of Medicine this summer suggested that we know far less than we think about CTE. Also, a new strain of the brain disease often associated with concussions ...

Former Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler, who died in 2015 from complications resulting from colon cancer, also suffered from the effects of the degenerative disease chronic traumatic ...