Jul 10, 2017
Courtesy of Fox 9 - The number one killer in America is sudden cardiac arrest - when the heart just stops beating. One Minnesota man is on a personal mission to make sure you know how to perform CPR.
Jul 10, 2017
Courtesy of Online Khabar English Edition- Gone are the days when high blood pressure or hypertension was a problem affecting only middle-aged or old people.
Jul 10, 2017
Courtesy of The Inquirer Daily News - Issues of heart failure and sudden cardiac arrest are rare in young people, but are most likely to involve athletes. In those cases, survival is rare.
Jul 9, 2017
Courtesy of Fosters - For most college athletes, except for the very small percentage that go on to the professional sports arena, life changes dramatically after graduation.
Jul 7, 2017
Courtesy of MIT Technology Review - An algorithm that spots heart arrhythmia shows how AI will revolutionize medicine—but patients must trust machines with their lives.
Jul 6, 2017
Courtesy of Health Day - Heart failure patients are much less likely now to die from sudden cardiac arrest, new research shows.
Jul 6, 2017
Courtesy of USA Today High School Sports - Cheraw High School junior, Dorrell McFarland, 17, went into cardiac arrest, according to friends. The teen was airlifted to Charleston where he died Monday.
Jul 6, 2017
Courtesy of The Review - Sudden cardiac death is one of the main causes of death among young athletes.
Jul 5, 2017
AAP News & Journals - Sudden unexplained death in pediatrics (SUDP) is an inclusive term for sudden deaths in children that remain unexplained by standard autopsy and death scene investigation, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), sudden unexpected infant death, sudden unexplained death in childhood, and undetermined deaths.
Jul 5, 2017
Courtesy of Safety.BLR - The American Heart Association (AHA) has launched a new campaign to promote first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and automatic external defibrillator (AED) training.
Jul 5, 2017
Courtesy of Express - SIX out of 10 patients with inherited ‘silent killer’ heart conditions are being put in danger of unnecessary early death because GPs are misdiagnosing them with anxiety, according to new research.
Jul 4, 2017
Courtesy of HospiMedica - A specially constructed drone equipped with a defibrillator can be delivered automatically to the site of a cardiac arrest long before an ambulance arrives.
Jul 4, 2017
Courtesy of Daily Mail - People with deadly heart conditions are mistakenly being diagnosed with stress, research suggests.
Jul 2, 2017
Courtesy of The Mercury News - A rare heart arrhythmia triggered the sudden death of Homestead High basketball player Kimberly Nuestro, according to her father.
Jun 30, 2017
Courtesy of Eight West News - Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is the most common genetic cardiovascular disorder, and affects at least 1 in 500 people in the United States.
Jun 30, 2017
Courtesy of Portsmouth Daily Times - Wednesday, June 8, 2016 looked to be another calm, late spring day for Tracy, Kayla, and Kayla’s older sister, Josalyn Grube, with Tracy out providing for her kids, who were enjoying the beginning of summer break. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t end that way.
Jun 30, 2017
Courtesy of The Hindu - Heart failure is the most common cause of hospitalisation but the good news is there are newer treatment options available to treat heart failure and sudden cardiac arrest.
Jun 30, 2017
Courtesy of UC San Diego Health - After three decades of feeling sick, exhausted and frustrated, Coppla was finally diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm that causes the top chambers of the heart to quiver.
Jun 29, 2017
Courtesy of The Siver Times - 17% of children and French teenagers are overweight or obese. A statistic that worries health authorities.
Jun 28, 2017
Courtesy of Philadelphia Weekly - By the end of June, the Philadelphia School District will have equipped each of its 214 schools with an automated emergency defibrillator.
