More than a third of Irish school rugby players are willing to continue playing while suffering a concussion, a new study has revealed. Under IRFU rules, players should immediately leave a game if ...

Conrad Smith, the head of the International Rugby Players’ Association, says the clampdown on high tackles has made “little material difference” on the concussion rate in elite rugby. World Rugby will ...

Steve Thompson was a Rugby World Cup winner with England in 2003 but is part of a group taking legal action against the sport ...

Rugby will trial a new tackle height at next year’s under-20 World Championship (Getty Images for Sale Sharks) Rugby’s global governing body has stated that a change to lower the tackle height at ...

World Rugby this week filed its defence to lawsuits brought by hundreds of former rugby union players over neurological injuries, denying any liability and arguing injuries are a "foreseeable and ...

The number of former rugby players taking legal action against sports governing bodies on claims they suffered brain injuries during their careers has grown to more than 1,000, a British law firm said ...

PARIS — Rugby star Sébastien Chabal won two Six Nations titles with France, reached a World Cup semifinal and played 62 times for his nation as a powerful forward. But he does not remember any of it ...

The Premier League is lobbying lawmakers to finally approve trials of rugby-style temporary concussion substitutions. England’s top tier is among 28 competitions applying renewed pressure in a letter ...

LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) - World Rugby has changed its Graduated Return to Play (GRTP) protocols which will now require elite players with concussion symptoms to avoid playing for a minimum of 12 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A leading New Zealand rugby player who had advocated for closer study of the connections between concussion and long-term brain injury has died at the age of 39. Police were ...