An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a device found in several public and private places, including homes, schools, and hospitals. An AED can help resuscitate the body if a patient has issues ...

ST. LOUIS — After Blues player Jay Bouwmeester suffered what the team called a "cardiac event" during Tuesday's game, 5 On Your Side asked the Rapid Response Team at Saint Louis University Hospital to ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

In searching for a silver lining from the rock legend's passing, perhaps it's that we pay needed attention to automated external defibrillators – specifically, what they are and how easy they are to ...

You see them everywhere: at airports, malls, work. But the National Institutes of Health says Americans die needlessly from heart attacks because so few people know ...

A national effort to make defibrillator training as commonplace as CPR instruction is slowly gaining steam as the lifesaving devices show up in malls, theme parks, casinos, senior centers, golf ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Yesterday, a 13-year-old girl was struck by ...

James Gee, like other Houston Airport Security personnel, sat through emergency training last year with hopes that he wouldn't have to use the skill. That all changed June 6 when Gee and two ...