Preventing heart disease now goes beyond routine cholesterol and blood pressure checks. Newer, more sophisticated tools can ...

This year, an estimated 23,000 kids under 18 will experience a sudden cardiac arrest. The number is staggering. But what’s most frightening is this: many of those kids, and their parents, never see it ...

WILKES-BARRE — Given that 2% of youths who receive heart screenings are diagnosed with an abnormality or concern, and 1% are diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition, a free clinic on ...

Campaigners want young people to be checked for conditions associated with sudden cardiac death.

Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at risk of having one, according to a new study led by Mount Sinai researchers ...

Bill Odom (left) and Bella Roeting pose at the Peyton Walker Foundation’s free heart screenings at Lower Dauphin High School Dec. 14 in Hummelstown. The event was in honor of Roeting, a Lower Dauphin ...

Margo Allgood and Lauren Holliman, a pair of nurse practitioners at Amory Cardiology Clinic, care a great deal about their ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Family Heart Foundation, a leading research and advocacy organization, announced the online publication of recommendations from a multidisciplinary panel in the Journal ...

After reading about a college student who died from sudden cardiac arrest, Brian Rodriguez wanted to be sure he had a healthy heart. So when Eisenhower High School recently needed volunteers for an ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A simple heart screening could be the difference between early treatment and tragedy — and one Central Oregon student knows that firsthand. On Tuesday morning, St. Charles Bend ...

Thangaratinam and colleagues aimed to shed light on the potential predictive value of using pulse oximetry to screen for significant cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD) in newborn infants. One ...