Grace Rubenstein

Each year U.S. emergency rooms treat more than 170,000 sports-related traumatic brain injuries, including concussions, in children and teens.

Concussion insurance aimed at high school athletes

As awareness grows of the grave dangers of concussions, coaches and parents across the nation are searching for ways to better manage these brain injuries in young athletes.

Financial giant Wells Fargo is pioneering a program in Sacramento, Calif., that creates a new insurance package that provides concussion testing and medical care for high school athletes. It's a level of diagnosis and treatment historically available only to the pros.

More people getting flu shots at grocery stores

People increasingly are getting flu shots at retailers rather than from their doctors or at public vaccine clinics.

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