Brain trauma and football have become inexorably linked. But a recent Harvard story suggestions there are other dangers for football players ...

The death of Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Thursday has fueled questions online about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a ...

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 ...

OJ Simpson is a former NFL player who committed crimes and exhibited erratic behavior, so naturally many have wondered if the Hall of Fame running back suffered from CTE. It does not sound like we are ...

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 ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Bill Belichick reminded everyone in his Friday press conference that he's only a football coach. In light of the news that Aaron Hernandez's family is suing the NFL and the Patriots ...

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 ...