Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Abnormal ECG findings were more common in female athletes compared with male athletes, according to a study ...

Samuel is a fourth-grader who plays soccer. On the day we met, he was lying on an examination table at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital with a mass of wires connected to his body. "It's measuring your ...

Edwin Jacob plays football and basketball atFranklin High School. Herecently came to a youth heart screening event organized by the Nick of Time Foundation at his school. Just relax totally, and take ...

If you're scheduled to have an electrocardiogram (EKG), you may wonder what to expect. Here, we break down what you need to ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. - Hundreds of students lined up in Waukesha to test their tickers Wednesday, Aug. 9 – record-breaking turnout that could save a life. Charles Peterson is a Port Washington High School ...

MIAMI – A South Florida teenager went for a simple EKG test at Nicklaus Children's Hospital when he was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, also known as WPW. "My mother saw a commercial on ...

It was 1990 when 23-year-old Loyola Marymount basketball player Hank Gathers collapsed during a game against the University of Portland and couldn't be revived. The cause? Sudden Cardiac Death, now ...

The Texas House has preliminarily approved requiring high school athletes to undergo electrocardiogram testing for possible degenerative heart problems before participating in campus sports.

ECG and EKG are different abbreviations for the same test, called an electrocardiogram. This test measures how electricity is functioning in a person’s heart. People may also refer to it as an ...