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...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 TV stations and printed in the newspaper. In the absence of a government subsidized national registry, there is no telling just how high the number really is. (See pictures of the college dorm...
...comprehensive AED bill in the country, requiring every private, elementary, middle and high school in the state to have a defibrillator and a staff member trained to use it. "When the sixteenth child was saved by a defibrillator, the Governor finally woke up and said we do have a problem," Friend says. (See pictures of eighth-graders being recruited for college basketball...
...More importantly, the Texas bill also requires that the AED be available in a reasonable amount of time and be within reach of the athletes. "An AED only answers half of the problem if is locked away in the nurse's office," says Dr. Jonathan Drezner, co-chair of the Inter-Association Task Force Consensus Statement. "I see cases all the time where an athlete collapses and the school doesn't know where...
...what's the holdup? Like most problems, it boils down to simple dollars and cents. Schools just don't want to pay the money. The average AED now costs about $1,500 and some are even available for less than a grand. But buying the equipment isn't the only hurdle, they also need to train someone to use it. "Money is a big problem," says Vanderbilt's Meyer, whose college has since bought ten additional defibrillators...
...work and back. There is a lot of talent in Zimbabwe. And the West is ready to invest and get things up and running again. And all we want is what any man wants: food on the table, shelter, a future for our children, security and peace. Our only problem is Mugabe. He thinks Zimbabwe is his property. He prevents everything. We cannot live. We cannot breathe. But we are not his property. We are not his donkeys. He is riding us. We need to get this...