The campaign by Red Sky Foundation calls to to close the Gender Gap in Heart Health and CPR Response ...

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a medical emergency where the heart suddenly stops beating normally. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Immediate defibrillation and high-quality CPR can ...

CAMBRIDGE - There's a group of students at MIT and Harvard banding together to save lives by improving CPR training. "There is very little female representation in the curriculum and so we thought we ...

THE Devon Air Ambulance are confronting the stigma that leaves women less likely to receive CPR by introducing new female training manikins into training sessions.

Essex and Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) is highlighting the importance of performing bystander CPR on women for International Women's Day.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are crucial life-saving techniques that can greatly influence survival rates during emergencies involving sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The ...

Fewer than 40% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients receive CPR before EMS teams arrive, according to the American Heart Association. Even fewer patients are treated with an automated external ...

Sudden cardiac arrest can happen anywhere, at any time — including during routine activities. Additionally, this type of medical emergency doesn’t just happen to middle-aged adults or the elderly.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Leah Schmidt looks like the proverbial picture of health. She is a cancer survivor who, in 2021 was training for Pelotonia-- the grassroots fundraiser to end cancer. A few months ...

Bystander aid using CPR and a defibrillator can be critically important for saving lives when someone has a cardiac arrest -- even when an ambulance arrives quickly, say researchers. A new study finds ...

Editor's note: Staff writer Whitney Carnahan is attending the seven-week Davenport Fire Department’s Citizens Fire Academy, writing a story each week on what participants are learning. The last ...