A head injury is an injury to your brain, skull, or scalp. This can range from a mild bump or bruise to a traumatic brain injury. Common head injuries include concussions, skull fractures, and scalp ...

Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...

Head injuries can transform from seemingly minor bumps into life-threatening medical emergencies within minutes or hours. The brain sits protected within the skull, but when trauma occurs, the ...

Studies started six years ago show new data about the physical impacts domestic violence survivors face.

As any fan who has caught a sporting event—baseball, basketball, soccer and especially football—in the past 15 years will tell you, discussion of concussions and traumatic head injuries has dominated ...

You must have heard this warning call from elders: don’t get hit in the head, it won’t do any good in the future. Turns out they were right all along. A groundbreaking new study has shed light on a ...

Sustaining a head injury of any type was associated with an increased risk for future suicide attempts. In a large cohort study that included more than 1.8 million adults, those with head injuries ...

Adults who experience a head injury face a substantially higher risk of attempting suicide compared to those without such injuries, according to the findings from a new UK-based study. Published in ...

Transcranial infrared light therapy aided tissue repair in rat models of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The findings may pave the way for a new therapeutic option for mTBI. The corresponding ...