Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

Based on an NFL model of brain trauma, researchers delivered a mild impact to the heads of awake, 9-month-old female rats ...

Arlene Karika-Thompson was walking away from the baseball diamond when the sound of a metal bat rang throughout the complex.

and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, all of which are major health problems that cost billions. The study from ...

A CDC report has revealed that nine of 68 of children who died of flu this year had brain damage, but it's unclear whether ...

Anecdotal reports of influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy in children sparked CDC investigation.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 19,000 people have died from the flu so far this winter, including ...

Twenty years ago, pathologist Bennet Omalu and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published the first paper identifying a new disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brain of ...

Nearly a dozen children this flu season have developed a rare brain disorder that causes seizures, loss of consciousness, ...

New data show that nine of those child deaths involved serious brain complications tied to the flu, the CDC reported Feb. 27 ...