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...happens all too often; every three days to be exact. In the middle of throwing a curveball or catching a pass, a young athlete dies of sudden cardiac arrest - an abrupt loss of heart function that affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and is the leading cause of death in competitive athletes...
...years, the medical community has thought that only about 20 fatal cases of sudden cardiac arrest occurred each year in the U.S. among young athletes. But new research presented in November 2006 by Dr. Barry Maron, director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, at the American Heart Association conference shows that the number of deaths among those athletes under 35 is nearly six times higher. "This is still an underestimate," Maron says. "It is real public health problem." And those are just the cases we know about: the ones that are picked up by local...
...what goes on at Zwinktopia. "It' s going to be a learning process," says Dorcas Casey, IAC's director of product strategy, when asked where the company draws the line on inappropriate behavior. If Zwinktopia really hopes to attract kids aged 13 and up without sending their parents into cardiac arrest, it might want to speed that process...
Researchers at two Harvard teaching hospitals have uncovered a link between the most common form of prostate cancer treatment and a greater risk of mortality owing to cardiac complications in men over 65 who are suffering in the advanced stages of the disease...
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s, Hospital and other institutions compared the number of cardiac-related deaths among 735 men with localized prostate cancer who have received ADT and 2,901 men who have not by drawing on information provided by the Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor, or CaPSURE, a national registry of men with prostate cancer...