Edwin Jacob plays football and basketball atFranklin High School. Herecently came to a youth heart screening event organized by the Nick of Time Foundation at his school. Just relax totally, and take ...

Samuel is a fourth-grader who plays soccer. On the day we met, he was lying on an examination table at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital with a mass of wires connected to his body. "It's measuring your ...

ECG and EKG are different abbreviations for the same test, called an electrocardiogram. This test measures how electricity is functioning in a person’s heart. People may also refer to it as an ...

If someone’s experiencing ongoing chest pain or other symptoms such as shortness of breath, an electrocardiogram will likely be a test your doctor orders. The electrocardiogram, also called an EKG or ...

Milan, Italy - When patients are undergoing electrocardiography exercise testing for heart-disease assessment, adjustment of the results for heart rate improves the prognostic ability, a new study ...

The debate over testing for the most common medical cause of death among NCAA athletes boils over. It was 1990 when 23-year-old Loyola Marymount basketball player Hank Gathers collapsed during a game ...