You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marlana Hodgins and her son, Trevor. It has been ...

VALRICO, Fla. (WFLA) – An 11-year-old Valrico boy is lucky to be alive after being struck by lightning earlier this year. The incident happened while Levi Stock was out boating with family in ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — One year ago, as the sun was setting on a late fall day, Andrés Snitcofsky, a 40-year-old designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, heard harrowing cries for help. It was the ...

Performing CPR is an emergency first aid skill everyone should know. Knowing how to perform CPR is important because you might not know the situations when the skill would come in handy, and you would ...

When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, ...

You may want to double-check your CPR skills. While it’s probably common knowledge not to take medical information from television, a majority of shows keep getting this important emergency technique ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The American Heart Association and WBTV partnered for ‘Hands on Heroes’ CPR training Friday that broke the record for the number of people trained for CPR at one time in ...