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 ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz demonstrates how to operate an automated external defibrillator, which helped save the life of celebrity trainer Bob Harper during a heart attack. When "The Biggest Loser" trainer Bob ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. ST. LOUIS – February is American Heart Month ...

Automated external defibrillators (AED) are portable, life-saving devices designed to treat people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating suddenly and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

High school and middle school coaches in Minnesota would have to be trained in how to use automated external defibrillators, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Tamisha Derks is the owner of Concierge Healthcare Training. She teaches First Aid and CPR to organizations and businesses in the Tampa Bay area. Derks started the business several years ...

Each year, thousands of people in the United States suffer from cardiac arrest outside of a hospital, but the survival rate could double if victims were treated with CPR. Dr. Mehmet Oz joins TODAY ...

Correction Aug. 13, 2010 - An incorrect statistic was published in the article below regarding the number of Americans who die each year from sudden cardiac arrest. That number is nearly 300,000. The ...

Somebody's wife or grandmother. Maybe yours. It wasn't like her earlier heart attack. Without warning or complaint, she slipped unconscious to the shopping mall floor. You check for a pulse. Nothing.

The HBR Charitable and Educational Foundation is partnering with Cardinal Nation to raise money for sick children through the Make-A-Wish Home raffle and Hot Country Nights concert series. The raffle ...