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...disease itself is as mysterious as its incidence. Unlike many heart problems indicated by symptoms or murmurs, the conditions that cause sudden cardiac arrest usually do not show up during a physical or an athletic screening. That was certainly the case for Davis Nwankwo, a basketball player from Vanderbilt University who collapsed suddenly last year during practice and was found later to have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition that causes the heart muscles to thicken. "There were no warning signs at all," says Michael Meyer, an athletic trainer who saved Nwankwo's life using an automatic external defibrillator (AED), a portable...
...cofounder of Parent Heart Watch, an advocacy group that helps to raise awareness and protect children from sudden cardiac death, knows that percentage all too well. Three years ago, she lost her 12-year-old daughter Sarah at a water park in Texas from the same condition as Nwankwo's. An AED might have saved Sarah's life. "It is an epidemic," Friend says. "When are we going to realize we are losing too many kids...
...Nwankwo's case, it was a small price to pay. The Vanderbilt junior, who still plays on the team and helps coach, says: "It could happen anytime to anyone...
...coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid...
...coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid The cover picture of al-Zarqawi with a red X on his face was insensitive and frankly revolting. To revel in the death of a fellow human being, no matter how hateful to you his actions may have been, is no way to encourage the cessation of terrorist activities or bring opposing...