Manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques, including the "handstand" method, are ineffective in microgravity due to the lack of a counter-force to compression, resulting in insufficient ...

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A 27-year-old Cookeville man is alive today because a CPR instructor happened to be in the right place at the right time during a medical emergency at a local TJ Maxx store.

This dumpster-diving raccoon got trashed. When Kentucky nurse Misty Combs headed into work at Letcher County Health Department in Whitesburg, she didn’t expect one of her patients that day to be a ...

A nurse in Kentucky has gone viral after performing CPR on a baby raccoon that had passed out after eating fermented peaches. Misty Combs, who works at the Letcher County health department in ...

Hallmark star Mike Heslin died during his birthday trip to Las Vegas after restaurant staffers allegedly blocked CPR from being performed during his medical emergency, a new lawsuit claims. Heslin’s ...

Mike Heslin’s husband has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Las Vegas restaurant, claiming the establishment failed to perform CPR on the actor in a “timely manner” before his death at age 30.

The Nigerian Cardiac Society (NCS) has announced a three-day free cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training for Nigerians, citing the country’s growing cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden, with ...

Kentucky nurse Misty Combs revived an unresponsive baby racoon using CPR after discovering the racoon and it’s sibling stuck in a dumpster, having feasted on fermented peaches from a local distillery.

Communities in Schools of the Dallas region serves 10 North Texas school districts across North Texas, and will soon offer something very unique to those it serves. Their mission is simple. Focusing ...

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Months after actress Shefali Jariwala's sudden death, her husband, Parag Tyagi, shared a heartbreaking account of her final moments in an emotional video. He detailed his desperate attempts to revive ...

If an astronaut suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in space, could their life be saved? The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Society for Aerospace Medicine have plans in ...