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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A five-year clinical trial led by the University of Minnesota Medical School researchers has led to a new method of CPR that improves long-term survival rates with good brain ...

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 ...

As humans begin to colonize space, it's inevitable that some will suffer a cardiac arrest. Space CPR conducted in weightlessness will be crucial to save their lives -- and researchers say they've now ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Soaring survival rates for Arizona cardiac-arrest victims given the “new CPR” are receiving national attention, boosting the push to adopt the technique worldwide. Pioneered by heart ...

At one point you're mowing your lawn and the next you're unconscious, on the ground, suffering a heart attack. That's what happened to 63-year-old Jack Fong. But due to Germantown Fire Department's ...

With temperatures creeping into the high 80s, kids have been heading to the pool, and the swim season is definitely heating up. When it comes to one of the ‘C’s’ in our ABC’s of water safety – classes ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kera/local-kera-904346.mp3 Dallas, TX – The recommended way to do CPR has changed, and it's saving lives in ...

Planet Earth with a spectacular sunset "Elements of this image furnished by NASA" Researchers say they’ve found the best method for CPR in space Mechanical piston devices provide compressions powerful ...