In the 1960s, Dr. Heimlich introduced a simple valve to drain severe chest wounds. He said he was motivated by his memory of the primitive conditions he worked under in Mongolia.

Henry Heimlich, namesake of the maneuver that has saved the lives of an estimated 100,000 potential choking victims, has died. The famed Hyde Park physician was 96.

The Heimlich Chest Drain Valve is still used worldwide for patients undergoing chest surgery. "Dad was firm in his convictions and passionate for his causes. He didn't play politics well.

Dr. Heimlich died at Christ Hospital, ... In 1962, 17 years after that soldier’s death, the doctor invented the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve ...

Dr. Henry Heimlich invented the famous first-aid maneuver that has saved the lives of countless choking victims and the Heimlich flutter chest valve, which has saved the lives of hundreds of ...

Dr. Henry Heimlich, who developed the Heimlich maneuver to save someone from choking, has published a new autobiography.

There have been other claims, too, that go beyond what Radiolab had time to cover.Heimlich maintains that he performed the world's first full-organ transplant in 1955.* A Romanian surgeon who said ...

Dr. Henry Heimlich, namesake of the maneuver that has saved the lives of an estimated 100,000 potential choking victims, has died. The famed Hyde Park physician was 96.

Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving InnovationBy Henry J. Heimlich(Prometheus Books, 253 pages, $19.95) ...

Editor's note: This story originally published on Feb. 5, 2014. Dr. Henry Heimlich died Dec. 17, 2016, at the age of 96. CINCINNATI – At 94 years old, Dr. Henry Heimlich could be expected to ...

Henry Heimlich, Life-Saving Maneuver Creator, Dies at 96. His cousin was Anson Williams, who played Potsie on 'Happy Days'; the actor got the doctor on television for the first time, on 'The Merv ...