Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s one thing to know that emergencies happen, to be trained and prepared in case there is a life-threatening medical issue. It’s ...

Be Prepared. Act Quickly. Save a Life. An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is a portable device used during sudden cardiac arrest, a life-threatening emergency in which the heart stops beating ...

You're at the mall, a restaurant, or the park. Anywhere. You notice that a small crowd has gathered around someone lying on the ground. The person isn't breathing and doesn't have a pulse. Someone ...

SAN ANTONIO – Diamond Garza said CPR can be as simple as singing the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. “There’s a need for people to know what to do,” Garza, a CPR instructor at Life Enrichment ...

Whites are three times more likely to survive a cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study has found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...

DALLAS, July 26, 2023 — Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to new ...

She’s only 8 years old, but Abigail Lopez, of Island Park, is already a heartsaver. The third grader at Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School completed the American Heart Association’s Adult CPR AED ...

Abigail Lopez, an 8-year-old from Island Park, has earned her adult CPR certification. She says she was inspired by her mother, a rescue company volunteer. Credit: Newsday Studios; Debbie Egan-Chin ...