My ears were ringing on March 7, so I thought I might have an ear infection. I hurried to an urgent care center, thinking I’d grab an antibiotic and be at work the next day. I was wrong.
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3/29/19
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I looked down, and there it was — my heart, feverishly thumping. My valves looked like little whips snapping back and forth. It was a strange sight indeed.
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10/26/17
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District and the Jason Gruen Foundation recently tested 150 ninth-graders over two weekends, checking their hearts with advanced portable electrocardiogram and echocardiogram machines. Screenings took place at Calhoun High School in Merrick on Jan. 9 and 16.
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By Scott Brinton
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1/28/16
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On April 15, 1985, 15-year-old Jason Gruen was walking into Manhasset High School, headed to class, when his heart suddenly stopped and he dropped to the ground, dead. A heart defect had gone undetected. His mother, Susan Gruen Helsinger, who now makes her home in Merrick, was devastated. She still is.
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By Scott Brinton
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5/10/13
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Last Saturday Grand Avenue Middle School and Merrick Avenue Middle School held their fourth annual echocardiogram screenings for eighth-grade students.
Some 185 Merrick-Bellmore students turned out for the event that tests for heart abnormalities.
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Sari Zeidler
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5/26/10
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