Douglas County Coroner Randy Daniel is waging a one-man, all-out campaign to require heart testing for students before they can participate in high school athletics. “This is just something we have to do,” Daniel said Wednesday. “We’ve had three young people die in the last few years.” Daniel’s campaign was sparked by the Feb. 10… See More

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Former NFL players were recently given free heart screenings at The Heart Center of Excellence at Broward Health Bro-ward General Medical Center (BGMC). The screenings provide retired NFL players with state-of-the-art, preventative cardiovascular testing to detect early evidence of heart and blood vessel disease. The program was formed by the NFL… See More

Overweight and weak, 10-year-old Mary Jackson Tofilon could not keep up physically with classmates at her Davenport school.  She dragged behind the other children during gym class and always came in last during exercises such as the 600-yard run. “I thought it was because I was heavy,” Tofilon, now 57, said. But a school-based heart… See More