While it’s probably common knowledge not to take medical information from television, a majority of shows keep getting one ...

Hands-only CPR is just two steps: call 911 when someone collapses, then start chest compressions. The AHA officially endorsed ...

(CBS/AP) Hands-only CPR doesn't just eliminate the "yuck factor." A new study shows it can save more lives. It's the first large American study to show more adults survived cardiac arrest when a ...

Since having quadruple bypass heart surgery a few years earlier, Dave Bol had adopted a lifestyle of walking. Three to four miles per day, he would trek around Grandville. Then one evening a decade ...

We would all like to believe that in the event a stranger was experiencing cardiac arrest, we would not hesitate to act. However, recent statistics published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. biomedical engineer developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that he says promises to be more effective than standard CPR. Leslie ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A five-year clinical trial led by the University of Minnesota Medical School researchers has led to a new method of CPR that improves long-term survival rates with good brain ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kera/local-kera-904346.mp3 Dallas, TX – The recommended way to do CPR has changed, and it's saving lives in ...

With temperatures creeping into the high 80s, kids have been heading to the pool, and the swim season is definitely heating up. When it comes to one of the ‘C’s’ in our ABC’s of water safety – classes ...

Space CPR conducted in weightlessness will be crucial to save their lives – and researchers say they’ve now come up with a better method. Automatic chest compression carried out by a mechanical piston ...

Researchers at a cardiology conference in Madrid detailed a new, more effective CPR method for astronauts to use for emergencies in weightless environments. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI As humans ...