As millions of kids take the field this month for Little League season, many will be outfitted with equipment their parents hope will keep them safe on the diamond: helmets, shatterproof glasses, ...

Jack Crowley was 15 when a baseball hit him in the chest and stopped his heart. The Long Island teen survived, thanks to a police officer who grabbed a defibrillator and shocked his heart back into ...

Sports medicine specialist Dr. Kody Moffatt knows how seeing Damar Hamlin collapse in cardiac arrest on "Monday Night Football" has frightened parents of young athletes. "Almost every family that I've ...

A blow to the chest of a young athlete from a ball, or hockey stick, or hard collision with another player, can trigger an irregular heartbeat that leads to sudden death — and commercially available ...

The risk of cardiac arrest, and even death, exists in other sports, too. The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation says cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among athletes — 1 per 5,000 players in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A blow to the chest of a young athlete from a ball, or hockey stick, or hard collision with another player, can trigger an irregular heartbeat that leads to sudden death -- ...

James Reimer keeps flinching and he doesn't like it. Several times in practice already this season, the Florida Panthers goaltender has braced for a shot up high because he is wearing smaller, more ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Jack Crowley was 15 when a baseball hit him in the chest and stopped his heart. The Long Island teen survived, thanks to a police officer who WASHINGTON (AP) Jack Crowley was 15 when a ...

WASHINGTON — Jack Crowley was 15 when a baseball hit him in the chest and stopped his heart. The Long Island teen survived, thanks to a police officer who grabbed a defibrillator and shocked his heart ...