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Health Experts Call For Heart Check Ups For Kids | KOSU Radio

bledonni — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:00:06 +0000

DeBauch believes the heart screening turned out to be life saving for this student athlete. The student now has an implantable defibrillator and is awaiting a heart transplant. The severity of this and the other two problems which …

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bledonni — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Although it satisfies the minimum standard for a satisfactory rating on this criterion, the story could have done a better job in explaining that heart screening for student athletes (including EKG) is routinely available and relatively …

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bledonni — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:27:59 +0000

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Mobile Health Screening: 5 Things You Should Know | ShapeLab

Ben — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:29:06 +0000

Most importantly, the events allow people to find out and potentially drastically reduce their risk of a facing serious and expensive medical incident for as little as $200. Posted in Other. Tags: ateriosclerosis, heart screening, …

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Epoch Times – Child Cancer Survivors Have Higher Heart Risk

Ben — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:17:20 +0000

She noted that British guidelines on long-term follow-up for cancer survivors recommend routine heart screening every five years, while in the United States screening is more frequent for those judged to be at greater risk. …

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Mixed results in news coverage of Texas doc's hopes to screen all …

darren — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:09:48 +0000

What’s up with all of the aggressive heart screening programs in Texas? (For example, see this past blog entry: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/schwitz/healthnews/2009/09/texas-law-manda-1.html.) Don’t they have a lot of uninsured they should …

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Scared about screening

Ben — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:14:56 +0000

Not so, due to an error on my records I was denied routine heart screening. My insurance company permits this screening only for people of a certain age without reasons such as a heart attack. Is that rationing or common sense? …

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AuntMinnie's Cardiac Imaging Digital Community

bledonni — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:00:01 +0000

ORLANDO, FL – Heart screening isn’t just for athletes anymore. Researchers at this week’s American Heart Association (AHA) meeting said that screening all middle-school-aged children for cardiac abnormalities with a targeted medical …

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Furious Seasons

bledonni — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:51 +0000

They did tell the wire service that the evidence supports fetal heart screening for mothers who use anti-depressants throughout a pregnancy. Separately, a study in the journal Women’s Health Issues in September (and brought to my …

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Championship Hearts Foundation Conducts Free Heart Screenings for …

Ben — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:40:09 +0000

Students must have a signed parental waiver in order to receive the heart screening. That waiver will be available at the event, or can be found on the Foundation’s website: www.championshipheartsfoundation.org …

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