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Cathie Lazarus likes to tell people she has two birthdays now. The one when she was born, and the other when bystanders performed CPR aft...

When Sonya Vezmar heard the shout – “Call 911!” – she immediately jumped into action. Vezmar, who teaches CPR for the American Heart Asso...

A few summers ago, Amber Waller Karasawa went into cardiac arrest while playing in a co-ed soccer game. Thinking she was having a seizure...

BY AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS Vicky Conley always grumbled whenever her work-required CPR training session came around. But it may b...

By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS Jennifer Zanganeh was busy shepherding young roller-skaters at her daughter’s 10th birthday party rece...

Cities nationwide should consider using mobile phones and apps to connect people in cardiac arrest with nearby CPR-trained rescuers, say ...

Vicky Conley always grumbled whenever her work-required CPR training session came around. But it may be what saved her husband’s life. Co...

Here’s what happened: You ran into Michael Jordan, the pride of North Carolina, at a casino. Now he is in cardiac arrest. You have four m...

Jennifer Zanganeh was busy shepherding young roller-skaters at her daughter’s 10th birthday party recently in Southern California when sh...

More than 330,000 middle school students in low-income areas learned CPR during the last school year through a nationwide American Heart ...

Hundreds of New Yorkers learned Hands-Only CPR on Thursday in Times Square, as they witnessed the world’s largest CPR relay. It took 250 ...

Ben Bersick learned CPR as a Boy Scout and trained on it plenty while in nursing school. But the first time he actually had to use it was...

Education efforts to teach bystander CPR should intensify in minority communities, according to the lead author of a recent study that sh...

There are currently 16 Hands-Only CPR training kiosks nationwide. (Photo by Red Shoe Production Agency for American Heart Association New...

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers reported that cardiac arrest victims fare better when first responders and paramedi...

Brian Maxwell was nearing the finish line when he saw what he thought was a woman tripping and falling down. “I went over to help her up,...

When Manny Medina was 16, he didn’t know or care much about emergency cardiovascular care as he walked into a CPR class at his high schoo...

Nearly ready to deliver her first child, Ashley Goette woke up at 5 a.m. to go to the bathroom and nudged her husband, who seemed to be s...

Lea en español The COVID-19 pandemic hasn't changed the fact that bystanders play a crucial role in improving survival rates for cardiac ...