The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidelines for the first time on treating children with concussions, saying they will provide doctors with the "tools they need to ensure the ...

A UVA Health System emergency medicine physician helped develop new CDC treatment recommendations for children with concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injury. Robert E. O’Connor, MD, ...

New children's concussion guidelines from the U.S. government recommend against routine X-rays and blood tests for diagnosis and reassure parents that most kids' symptoms clear up within one to three ...

PHOENIX — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released what it called the first-ever national guidelines for treating concussions. The CDC said the guidelines are intended to ...

New guidelines have been released from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concerning concussions and children. The new guidance is based on 25 years of research. More than 800,000 children ...

CLEVELAND (WKRC) - New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines released Tuesday could change the way your child is treated for a concussion. For the first time in the United States, the ...

For the study, CDC researchers examined national data collected between 2001 and 2013 regarding playground-related injuries in children 14 and younger. Of the 215,000 children treated annually for ...