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In this episode of WJCT's What's Health Got to Do With It, retired NFL player Ben Utecht talks about his history of brain injuries before a panel of doctors discuss concussions in sports.

The medical examiner reported that the Bucs' star had a blood-alcohol level of 0.28 at the time of his death. Researchers previously said he had stage 2 CTE.

The late player’s family released the findings of a study in hopes of raising awareness of CTE and the risks of the disease.

Over the last two decades or so, CTE – short for chronic traumatic encephalopathy – has become almost synonymous with the National Football League.The…

In South Florida, high school football has seen a decline in participation amid growing health concerns. Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach recently...

A federal judge in Connecticut has dismissed a lawsuit by 60 former professional wrestlers, many of them stars in the 1980s and 1990s, who claimed World...

A doctor who will be portrayed by actor Will Smith in the upcoming movie, "Concussion," told a Tampa audience how his research into brain injuries has...

Researchers studying a degenerative disease in former athletes say 11 of 12 brains of deceased former NFL players tested over the past year showed signs...

According to a report from the NCAA, a little more than seven percent of injuries in college football are concussions. The term concussion started to...