brain injury

Two Maryland highschools were facing off under the Friday night lights when a play during the season’s first scrimmage left a teammate hospitalized.

There’s often excitement at the first game of the season, but that joy was crushed when a student suffered and injury on the field at a high school in Maryland. News4’s Derrick Ward reports the high schooler’s recovery.

Sean MacCrory has been reaching milestones and surpassing them for most of his life.

Sean MacCrory’s brain injury doesn’t stop him from living life.

Boxer Patrick Day has died days after suffering a traumatic brain injury during a bout on Saturday at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena, according to manager Lou DiBella.

A boxer says he’s “devastated” over the death of his opponent after their fight at MGM National Harbor in Maryland on Friday. The state has ruled he will be suspended for 30 days.

Russian-born boxer Maxim Dadashev is being treated at Prince George’s Medical Center, after an injury he suffered during a match at MGM National Harbor on Friday night. News4’s Tracee Wilkins has the story.

U.S. health officials are investigating whether electronic cigarettes may trigger seizures in some people who use the nicotine-vaping devices. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has reviewed 35 reports of seizures among e-cigarettes users, mainly in young people. Regulators stressed it’s not yet clear whether vaping is responsible. But they said they’re concerned and encouraged the public to...

People seeking dubious, potentially harmful treatment for cancer and other ailments raised nearly $7 million over two years from crowdfunding sites, a study found. Echoing recent research on campaigns for stem cell therapies, the findings raise more questions about an increasingly popular way to help pay for costly, and sometimes unproven, medical care. Soliciting money on GoFundMe and other sites...

A football player at a Georgia high school has died from a severe brain injury. News outlets report Pike County High School student Dylan Thomas was hurt during a game Friday night and flown to a hospital in critical condition. Thomas’ uncle, Nick Burgess, says Thomas was hit in the second quarter of the game and later collapsed on the...

New children’s concussion guidelines from the U.S. government recommend against routine X-rays and blood tests for diagnosis and reassure parents that most kids’ symptoms clear up within one to three months. Signs of potentially more serious injuries that may warrant CT imaging scans include vomiting, unconsciousness and severe, worsening headaches, according to the guidelines released Tuesday. The guidelines from the...

The United States has pulled out two more of its workers from its embassy in Cuba and is testing them for possible brain injury, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Friday, amid concerns they may have been affected by mysterious health incidents harming U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China. The two individuals are considered “potentially new cases” but...

The Grossmont Union High School District agreed to pay more than 7 million dollars to a South Bay family after their teenage son was injured in a freshman football game. The family claimed the coaching staff failed to recognize concussion symptoms and put him back in the game after becoming aware of his injury.

Just in time for the Super Bowl, a group of former NFL linebackers is pleading with parents to keep their children out of tackle football until high school to avoid traumatic brain injuries. The retired players, Nick Buoniconti, Harry Carson and Phil Villapiano, are recommending flag football for children under 14 as a way to protect their brains at a...

The United States expelled 15 of Cuba’s diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana.

An Air Force veteran who wanted a fast-shooting rifle but couldn’t afford one that was fully automatic invented the “bump stocks” now gaining unwanted attention for their possible role in the Las Vegas concert massacre, NBC News reported. “We weren’t able to fire as fast as we wanted,” Jeremiah Cottle recalled in a 2011 interview with a local newspaper, The...

The United States expelled 15 of Cuba’s diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana, plunging diplomatic ties between the countries to levels unseen in years. Only days ago, the U.S. and Cuba maintained dozens of diplomats in newly re-opened embassies in Havana and Washington, powerful symbols of a warming relationship between longtime foes....

One of the doctors wounded in last Friday’s rampage shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital vividly recalls the moment the “angry” gunman, dressed in black boots and a white lab coat, stormed the room and began firing.

National Football League officials improperly sought to influence a government study on the link between football and brain disease, according to a senior House Democrat in a report issued Monday. New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone says the league tried to strong-arm the National Institutes of Health into taking the project away from a researcher that the NFL feared was biased....