Articles tagged with 'Cook Children's Heart Center' | Checkup Newsroom

National CPR and AED Awareness Week is June 1-7 to highlight how lives can be saved if more Americans know CPR and how to use an AED.By Eline deBruijn WigginsA family and community are inspired after a 15-year-old boy was revived for the second time ...

“I’m so tough, not even a broken heart can stop me.” Those are words Tony and Ashlea Peña hope their daughter Sydni will always live by. Sydni is an energetic toddler with a warrior spirit. She loves to run, jump, and spend time outdoors with her sis...

“So can you see it?”I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this from anxious parents as their child is having his echocardiogram done. In reality, a murmur is something that is heard, not seen.In a normal heart, the valves make noises as they clo...