Researchers are exploring a new generation of biochemical markers that may help clinicians detect myocardial contusion, a frequently overlooked form of heart injury caused by blunt chest trauma, ...

The Veterinary Abbreviated Injury Scale is being used to help classify combat injuries sustained by military working dogs.

Vanderbilt doctors are studying whether fresh frozen plasma can reduce brain damage when given soon after head trauma.

Severe bleeding is one of the most common and preventable causes of death after traumatic injury, yet currently available ...

“We have no specific treatment for traumatic brain injury that targets the brain injury itself or that avoids or lessens that ...

Neurites include axons, which are often severed during spinal cord injuries. When axons are cut, communication between ...

Deciding whether to withdraw life support after a severe traumatic brain injury is extremely difficult. Loved ones are faced with balancing their hopes for recovery with the desire not to prolong ...

Cash transfer programs, which provide money directly to recipients, are growing in the United States, but face significant ...

NEW YORK -- One month after Bob Saget was found dead, his family and the Florida medical examiner's office handling the case announced that the comedian and "Full House" star "passed from head trauma.

Eli Ferrell, an 18-year-old student-athlete from Butler, Missouri, has made a remarkable comeback after suffering a traumatic ...

Here's how doctors describe a "complex tibia fracture," the injury Lindsey Vonn says she has after a horrific Olympics crash.