Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) will share its innovative approaches to addressing suicide risk factors at the nation's top conference dedicated to suicide prevention among military personnel and veterans. The 2024 VA/DoD Suicide Prevention Conference is hosted by the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Department of Defense. This year's conference theme is Reimagining Suicide Prevention: Evolving and Innovating to Meet Diverse Needs. 

Greg Johnson, a former NHL center and Nashville Predators captain who died by suicide in 2019, was diagnosed with CTE, his family announced through the Concussion Legacy Foundation on Wednesday.

A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare, reveals insights that could lead to new treatments for a serious brain bleeding condition that’s common in newborns with very low birth weight. The findings are published in Brain.

Concussions sustained by 5- to 12-year-old patients are more likely to be the result of recreational play than sports, according to a study published in The Journal of Pediatrics. “We knew that these elementary-age kids were sustaining injury, but the scenarios that they were getting injured were different than what we typically associate with concussions on team sports,” Kristy B. Arbogast, PhD, director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention and co-director of the Minds Matter Concussion Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), told Healio.

Two women who endured decades of intimate partner violence including dozens of brutal assaults and head injuries before they died have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy — the first cases of CTE in victims of domestic violence in Australia and two of just a handful globally. The grim findings, published today in the journal Acta Neuropathologica, were made by a group of pathologists from several states and territories who teamed up to understand whether the degenerative brain disease found mostly in deceased male football players and boxers is also prevalent among abused women with histories of repetitive head injury.

Some people, especially those in public service, perform admirable feats: Think of health-care workers fighting to keep patients alive or first responders arriving at the scene of a car crash. But the emotional weight can become a mental burden. Research has shown that emergency personnel are at elevated risk for mental health challenges like post-traumatic stress disorder. How can people undergo such stressful experiences and also maintain their well-being?

Canadian doctors and brain injury experts believe Canadian Football League players should be encouraged to use Guardian Caps whenever they have the opportunity, but say the technology does not mitigate the risk of concussion. The CFL announced on May 15 that players will be allowed to wear Guardian Caps — protective soft-shell helmet covers — during games this season as part of a new series of health-and-safety measures. The league also mandated mouthguards, becoming the first professional league in North America to do so.

The team behind the Ultimate Fighting Championship is betting big on Power Slap, a new and extremely dangerous competition with many detractors.

With post-traumatic stress disorder among college students doubling between 2017 and 2022, according to a recent New York Times article, one health director at an upstate university is doling out advice for parents. Ariel Rios, executive director for the Health and Wellness Center at Utica University, said parents should talk with their kids as they come home for the summer. 

Almost half of trauma patients (41%) admitted to the hospital have a missed diagnosis of concussion. Assessing admitted trauma patients for concussion can help clinicians more effectively manage patients’ long-term cognitive health, according to research presented at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP 2024) national conference, held from June 25 to June 30, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee.