Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been six days since Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field in front of millions. Many feared the worst. But ...

Calvin University provides an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Program on campus to make early defibrillation accessible to students, faculty, staff, and other persons who experience sudden ...

Automated external defibrillators (AED) are portable, life-saving devices designed to treat people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating suddenly and ...

When someone’s heart stops working, it is known as sudden cardiac arrest. It causes blood to stop flowing to the brain and other organs. Sudden cardiac arrest can cause a person to die within minutes.

Yesterday, a 13-year-old girl was struck by “an arc of lightning that hit the ground” while visiting the Garfield Park Conservatory. She was treated by employees who used an onsite defibrillator.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Super Bowl is Sunday when the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Arizona. It's the last game of the 2022 ...

In the UK there are more than 40,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) annually, but fewer than 10% of people survive. Early CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and use of an Automated External ...

To kick off National Public Health Week, NorthBay Health installed its first publicly accessible Automated External Defibrillator at Mankas Corner, while meeting with the community and local ...

The Super Bowl is Sunday when the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Arizona. It's the last game of the 2022 season, a season which almost saw a player from the Buffalo Bills die on ...

Automated External Defibrillators (AED) have become common enough in public spaces that we may tend to overlook them, as with fire extinguishers and other common public safety items. But when a person ...

A new poll revealed a “critical gap” in automated external defibrillator (AED) awareness with most Americans wanting a bystander to use the device to save their life in a cardiac emergency but less ...