A helmet wouldn’t really protect your brain if you stand less than a foot away from 3 grams of TNT when it explodes, but a simple face shield attachment would help defray the blast energy from your ...

Over half of all injuries to U.S. troops are due to explosions, and a large percentage of those are head injuries. While helmets offer some protection, explosive pressure waves can be transmitted to ...

The much-maligned combat helmet worn by U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan sustained another blow Monday as engineers from MIT reported that the headgear, as currently designed, did ...

Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI, has been called the signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. About 130,000 men and women have come home from their deployments with TBI, and getting ...