LOS ANGELES -- Another group of former NFL players is suing the league and helmet makers over head injuries sustained during their careers. The suit claims the NFL, Riddell Sports Group and its ...

Jamal Lewis, Dorsey Levens and two other former NFL players have sued the league over brain injuries that they say left them struggling with medical problems years after their playing days ended.

A study that will be presented at next week’s American Academy of Neurology (AAN) meeting offers one of the most conclusive pieces of evidence yet of a definitive link between brain injury and ...

NFL players ... disadvantages for retired players as they grow older. It’s possible younger players have benefited from more awareness, treatment and understanding of head injuries in the ...

MORE: Concussions Continue to Plague Retired NFL Players He admits that even his results, which are the strongest yet bridging play in the NFL and brain injury among living athletes, don’t prove ...

Thousands of retired Black professional ... norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is ...

One-third of former professional football players reported ... of the Concussion and Brain Injury Institute at West Virginia University and neurologist who serves on the NFL's Head, Neck and ...

It provides up to $88,000 from the NFL and the union to help with the care of players afflicted with dementia or related brain problems. Since the plan took effect Feb. 1, 35 retired players have ...

Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar spoke out on the threat of traumatic brain injuries and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after suffering more than 100 documented concussions ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (UPI) --A Harvard study of almost 2,000 former National Football League players revealed that about one-third believe they have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative ...

But this newest study is “one of the largest studies to date in living retired NFL players” and the “first to demonstrate significant objective evidence for traumatic brain injury in these ...