A mother who lost her son at the young age of just 20 to a heart attack, launched a program to help high school kids get free EKG tests done at school to uncover hidden heart problems. Now, a Racine ...

An electrocardiogram, also called an ECG or EKG, is a simple and painless test that measures the electrical impulses of your heart to check for signs of heart disease. It's done through small ...

Student-athletes are twice as likely as non-athletes to suffer from cardiac arrest, according to local doctors. The recent case of LeBron James' son, Bronny, who suffered sudden cardiac arrest during ...

Class of 2008 Robinson graduate Ryan Lopynski was a freshman at Virginia Tech who’d come home to Clifton’s Hampton Chase community to visit his family and seek a summer job. But on April 26, 2009 he ...

FAIRFAX, Va. (WUSA9) -- You don't think you have to worry about your teenager having a heart attack. But, the leading cause of death for young athletes is sudden cardiac arrest. A Clifton, Va. family ...

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 ...