EKG

School districts will be mandated under new law to provide low-cost electrocardiograms to student-athletes in Grades 9-12. The tests can detect deadly heart conditions.

The new rule, which kicks in next year, will require all high school athletes to get at least one electrocardiogram screening. The school board vote was 3-2.

What kind of heart check-up do young athletes need to make the team? A large study of teenage soccer players in England found in-depth screening didn't…