When Simon died, we got some very important advice – “get your hearts checked because kids aren’t supposed to die.” Over the past six years, we’ve discovered that this advice was unique, which is unfortunate. Most of the families that we talk to that have been striken with sudden cardiac...

We need more studies like this.  Whether they prove that more students are dying or not, we need to start speaking from a place of fact, not emotion.  We need to debate the findings, not the feelings.  If our kids are dying unecessarily, as I believe they are, we need...

While the academic debate clammers, and young athletes die, Dr. Rosenberg just decided to start screening kids.  Read on . . . http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/118303304.html

  By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: March 21, 2011 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner Screening healthy children with electrocardiography (ECG) and echocardiography could detect previously undiagnosed conditions that might lead to...

(Reuters Health) – Screening athletes for hidden heart problems may not help prevent sudden deaths, a new study from Israel finds. The findings, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, cast doubts on the usefulness of widespread, mandatory screening of young athletes with electrocardiography, or ECG. The...

Two recent studies here in the U.S. — published in the Annals of Internal Medicine –looked at ECG testing along with the PPE sports physical exams. The first study found that adding an ECG to a routine sports physical doubled the number of cases of potential heart problems detected when...

(PHILADELPHIA) An abrupt, fatal heart attack in a young athlete on the playing field is a tragedy destined to repeat itself over and over until more is understood about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disorder that is the most common cause of sudden death in young people but which affects...

This is sad.  Do we really need to litigate for change?  The following article shows that of the 108 deaths of NCAA athletes from 1982 – 2008 (documented by the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research), 65% of them were heart related.  This means that they could have been...