Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...

NEW YORK -- One month after Bob Saget was found dead, his family and the Florida medical examiner's office handling the case announced that the comedian and "Full House" star "passed from head trauma.

After traumatic brain injury (TBI), some patients may recover completely, while others retain severe disabilities. Accurately ...

Contact sport athletes showed significant brain injury in an autopsy study before signs of CTE appeared. Athletes who experienced repeated head hits had 56% fewer neurons at the depths of the cortical ...

Moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) increased malignant brain tumor risk in a large retrospective study of civilians. This risk persisted when findings were meta-analyzed with data from ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a disease of the dead. Clinical features suggestive of the ...

In a meta-analysis of 17 studies, traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) was prevalent in nearly 7% of older adults with head injury from ground-level falls, with focal neurologic signs, head trauma, ...

The brain's waste-clearing system significantly declines in function with repeated head impacts, according to a new study of cognitively impaired professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters.