Each year, about 350,000 Americans go into cardiac arrest, but only 5% survive because help comes too late. In New York City, experts say the survival rate is less than 2% because of traffic and the ...

Every year 250,000 people die from cardiac arrest. If you live in Wake County, your chances of surviving are better than most. It is not a matter of new techniques or technology. In fact, common ...

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They were at home, in the car driving, on the ballfield umpiring and out for a run while training for a marathon. What the four men have in common is they suffered heart attacks. And, they were saved ...

A start-up called Flirtey delivers pizzas, Slurpees and other sundries by drone. But now the company is embarking on lifesaving work as a medical courier in the U.S. Flirtey has formed a partnership ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Farmers’ Market on Broadway will receive a portable Automated External Defibrillator (AED) on-site thanks to a grant from AARP. AARP announced the market has been selected to ...

Clever design, close attention to human safety issues, and a top man-machine interface make the Philips HeartStart portable home defibrillator one of the hottest medical electronics devices on the ...

May 12—It's only been a few months since Waseca football coach Brad Wendland was collapsed on the sidelines, desperately in need of medical help as he was hit by sudden cardiac arrest. In the future, ...

Emily Cranny, 14, has a congenital heart defect, one that sometimes means her heart stops working properly. A defibrillator implanted more than a year ago already has saved her life once. Now, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sherry Adams, state health officer for North Dakota, speaks Feb. 11, 2026, during an event celebrating the lives saved thanks to a ...

As a mother of six children, four of whom play soccer, Jennifer Dunaway is not only a soccer mom but a soccer referee, a soccer administrator and a trainer. “For me to know that these fields are not ...

After spending the week visiting his family in Phoenix, 73-year-old Benjamin Boxerbaum stood at the airport ticket counter awaiting his flight home, when he suddenly collapsed. The paramedics were ...