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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

ROCKFORD — A new method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation that the Rockford Fire Department is using on adult cardiac arrest patients saw its best results in the past five years in February. Of the ...

A fast response is critical for the survival of a heart attack victim, and new guidelines issued Monday by the American Heart Association are already the talk of emergency responders in the Wabash ...

About 800 high school seniors will learn hands-only CPR on Wednesday as part of a two-year campaign to teach the method to thousands of Clark County residents. Clark County Fire District 6 is leading ...

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 ...