By Brian Bullock/Staff Writer Anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 school-aged children die annually from sudden cardiac arrest and Lucia Mar’s school district is taking steps to prevent local addition to those figures. The district is the first on the Central Coast to supply all of its facilities with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and has worked… See More

While this number is relatively low compared with other causes of death in similar age groups and considering how many athletic events take place annually, several times a year, television media report an athlete’s death. These deaths are always high profile and generate community attention. But what causes a healthy appearing child, teen or young… See More

Friday, November 27, 2009 Anne McGraw Reeves also has a column that appears Mondays in The Patriot-News. She can be e-mailed at amcreeves@yahoo.com. Nicholas Over’s heart unexpectedly stopped beating eight years ago, cutting short a life full of promise and potential. After they buried their 20-year-old son, George “Skip” and Cristal Over faced two choices:… See More

By Jon Ostendorff • November 27, 2009 CULLOWHEE — Dr. Greg Motley has found hundreds of heart murmurs in his dozen years doing health exams for high school athletes and twice as many cases of high blood pressure. He even found a case of appendicitis that required emergency surgery the next day. But the annual… See More

This past summer, a 17 year old boy collapsed and went into sudden cardiac arrest at Camp Nock A Mixon.  This camp is about 25 minutes from our house and we know several families that attend.  Cody was later diagnosed with Wolf Parkinson White disease.  He was not symptomatic.  However, he almost learned that this… See More