Each year, two in every 100,000 young athletes succumb to sudden cardiac death, fueling a debate over what constitutes a comprehensive health screening prior to sports participation. A new study by ...

NEW YORK --Children should be screened for heart problems with an electrocardiogram before getting drugs like Ritalin to treat hyperactivity and attention-deficit disorder, the American Heart ...

A new state law requires ECGs and physicals for all high schoolers who have never played an FHSSA sport. Here's where your ...

Find out can ecg detect heart attack progression and learn how an electrocardiogram test identifies immediate muscle damage or silent cardiac events.

With summer on the horizon, testing and exams are not words students and parents want to think about until August. But this test requires no advance studying and is painless. An electrocardiogram, or ...

Pediatric cardiologists are prone to misinterpreting electrocardiograms when using the results to determine whether young athletes have heart defects that could make exercising perilous, according to ...