By Kim Bell ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 08/26/2009 COOL VALLEY – As Carol Howard plans to bury her youngest son Friday, she still has no clear answers from doctors about why the 13-year-old collapsed and died at football practice eight days ago. Weeks before his death Aug. 18, her son, Anthony Troupe Jr., had fallen unconscious… See More

Espanyol’s captain, Daniel Jarque, has died after he suffered a heart attack during a training session in Italy with the club. Club doctors and Italian paramedics tried to revive the 26-year-old without success. Jarque joined Espanyol in 1995 as a 12-year-old, and has been a regular in the Catalan side since he made his debut… See More

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Blessing Hospital offers free screenings By Chad Douglas Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 3:51 p.m. The most common cause of sudden death in American athletes is called is called Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy or H-O-C-M. The condition is considered rare, but H-O-C-M affects one in about every two thousand people, many of them teenagers. H-O-C-M is a condition… See More

Cary High football player stable after collapsing From staff reports Published: Sat, Aug. 15, 2009 12:13PM Modified Sat, Aug. 15, 2009 12:26PM // // Buzz up! –> E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name close tool goes here CARY — Cary High School football player Michael White, who collapsed after a scrimmage Friday night, is in… See More

By Vince Rembulat Reporter vrembulat@mantecabulletin.com 209-249-3537 // POSTED  Aug. 12, 2009 2:44 a.m. Casey Lynn Bauer received plenty of attention during last February’s Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. The young daughter of Bryan and Shannon Bauer of Escalon was born with two holes in her heart, and has undergone two heart surgeries while spending a… See More