The American Heart Association's 2025 update to CPR and ECC introduces new algorithms and protocols aimed at boosting EMS and ...

The Trump administration continues to question long-standing science with unproven ties between vaccines, autism, and a popular painkiller. Meantime, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

The world’s most famous life-saving rescue technique could be worse than death in many cases, according to a new report. Administering CPR — or cardiopulmonary resuscitation — to a cardiac arrest ...

In 2025 why not learn CPR? NPR's Life Kit has tips for how to help someone in cardiac arrest. Every year, more than 350,000 people in the U.S. are not in a hospital when they go into cardiac arrest.

The conventional method for chest compressions doesn’t have a great success rate. Doctors are pumping it up with a high-tech plunger. By Joanne Silberner In 1988, a 65-year-old man’s heart stopped at ...