The helmet acts like an oven to an already hot, sweaty head causing post accident brain temperatures to potentially reach a fatal threshold. This is how motorcycle riders can die.

The device can scan the brain while a person walks. Chris Bauer. When it comes to getting a clear idea of what’s going on inside a person’s body, few medical devices are as useful as a PET ...

Y our head really is the most important thing to keep safe, whether you’re on a motorcycle or not, as your ECU is inside it.

Commentary Helmets: Can More Be Done to Protect the Brain From Injuries? Can more be done in the design of helmets to reduce the risk of head injury?

Growing up in Indiana, my parents were sticklers for rules around wearing helmets. We had to wear a helmet when we rode our ...

When the head is well secured in padding, the force of an impact moves to the soft matter inside the skull, leaving the brain still vulnerable. For helmet makers, negotiating that tradeoff between ...

Dual-density EPS inside a shell that’s a matrix of hand-laid interwoven layers of fiberglass and light-weight organic fibers results in the safest RF ever, as well, in a helmet that fits many ...

Researchers working on ways to make football safer 02:03. DURHAM, NH - Support keeps pouring in for Sharon High School sophomore Rohan Shulka after he suffered a traumatic brain injury during a ...

Bell Sports is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Canadian authorities to recall more than 31,000 bike ...

The plastic shell helmet was invented in 1939 and became mandatory a few years later. The first face mask entered the game in the 1950s, and foam padding wasn’t added until the 1960s.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—Joe Hilton was inside an MRI machine, wearing a $1 million helmet and goggles showing him pictures of heroin being cooked in a spoon and injected into an arm. Doctors behind a ...

The device can scan the brain while a person walks. Chris Bauer. When it comes to getting a clear idea of what’s going on inside a person’s body, few medical devices are as useful as a PET ...