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Do they protect against heart failure?

Do they protect against heart failure?

Sports medicine specialist Dr. Kody Moffatt knows how watching Damar Hamlin collapse from cardiac arrest on "Monday Night Football" has scared parents of young athletes. "Almost every family I've seen in the clinic since Tuesday morning has asked about this," said Moffatt, division chief of sports medicine at Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. "They were concerned about the impacts to the chest." Such life-threatening injuries are extremely rare, and while it now appears the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety is on the mend, the incident was a reminder of how quickly injuries can happen. Doctors at the University…
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High school student, 16, dies during flag football game after ‘medical emergency’

High school student, 16, dies during flag football game after ‘medical emergency’

A high school student has died after suffering a "medical emergency" during her football game at Desert Oasis High School in Las Vegas.Ashari Hughes, 16, collapsed after going to the bench on Thursday after experiencing chest problems. A nurse gave him CPR in the stands. She also used a defibrillator to get her heartbeat back, but she died on arrival at the hospital.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Hughes's father told him fox 5 vegas that she had a heart problem and had been seeing a cardiologist but was cleared to play."Ashari was 16 years old and was…
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Mother of Uvalde school shooter arrested, charged with assault and battery

Mother of Uvalde school shooter arrested, charged with assault and battery

The mother of the shooter in the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was arrested this week following an incident related to domestic violence, police said.Adriana Martinez Reyes, 40, was arrested Wednesday in Oklahoma City and charged with threatening to commit an act of violence and assault and battery, according to a police report. She is the mother of the gunman who opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in May 2022, killing 19 students and two teachers. Police were dispatched to a house shortly before 10 am. A man told an officer who responded that Reyes threatened to…
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