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What to know about CTE, the chronic brain disease associated with contact sports
The progressive brain disease can be caused by repeated trauma to the head and has caused serious health problems for ...
What to Know About the Brain Disease CTE
“CTE is linked to repetitive brain trauma and has a distinct pathology that can only be diagnosed at autopsy,” says Dr. Ross Zafonte, a principal investigator of the Football Players Health Study at ...
CTE awareness grows as high school football evolves for safety
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive brain trauma, is gaining attention in the sports world."The athlete i ...
Sons of Didarul Islam, cop killed in Park Ave. massacre, idolized their father: ‘Beaming with pride’
The sons of the NYPD officer killed in the Park Avenue mass shooting idolized their dad, showing him off to classmates and ...
How Shane Tamura went from high school football star to the NYC shooting mass murderer
What we know about Tamura’s life, how he got the assault rifle that he used to kill an NYPD officer and three others, and the ...
Gunman who killed 4 in NYC building blamed NFL for mental health issues and was targeting its office
Police say a gunman who killed four people in a Manhattan skyscraper before taking his own life claimed to have a brain ...
The Manhattan shooter had a previous arrest and 2 psychiatric holds, sources say. How was he able to own a gun?
New York City’s deadliest shooting in 25 years – in a state with some of the toughest gun laws in the nation – is raising ...