Saturday mornings at the Smithlin household in Puyallup, Washington, followed a comfortable routine: Kyra, an early riser, would go into her 9-year-old son B...

Americans who live in counties with high poverty rates are more likely to die from heart failure compared to people living in more affluent areas, new resear...

Saving a child with heart disease whose heart has stopped requires a different approach than reviving a child with a healthy heart, according to a new scient...

70% of Americans feel helpless to act during a cardiac emergency and as 88% of these types of emergencies occur, we all need to be prepared to save a life wi...

Imagine for a moment that a major earthquake has just occurred in your town. The shaking takes you by surprise and you dash underneath a large table, hoping ...

Be prepared In many emergency situations, you don’t need special knowledge beyond standard first-aid and CPR skills to care for people aged 65 and older. Sti...

African American children who live in poor neighborhoods are significantly less likely to receive bystander CPR during a cardiac arrest than white children, ...

Jeff and Melanie Baldwin were hanging a picture in the dining room of their Las Vegas home when Melanie collapsed. Jeff grabbed his phone and dialed 911. Pre...

An ordinary man sang for a stranger's life —and saved it by using a simple CPR technique I came up with to help more people save more lives. Tom Maimone, 52,...

School crisis intervention aid Carla Leonard had grown to hate one part of her morning routine: bumping her head on the automated external defibrillator (AED...