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 ...

Oct. 9—SUPERIOR — Two outdoor spaces will soon have quick access to automated external defibrillators, commonly known as AEDs, thanks to a grant received by the Superior Fire Department. SaveStation ...

Calvin University provides an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Program on campus to make early defibrillation accessible to students, faculty, staff, and other persons who experience sudden ...

An estimated 90 lives have been saved in North Dakota since a grant five years ago equipped law enforcement across North ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio market research analysts forecast the global automated external defibrillator market to grow at a CAGR of over 8% during the period 2018-2022, according to their ...

If you haven’t had to perform CPR for a patient who was being shocked by an automated implant­able cardioverter defibrillator (AICD), give it time. Approximately 800,000 people in the United States ...

When someone’s heart stops working, it is known as sudden cardiac arrest. It causes blood to stop flowing to the brain and other organs. Sudden cardiac arrest can cause a person to die within minutes.

Automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) deliver shocks to the heart to correct arrythmias. They do so based on electrocardiogram data. Researchers have now shown that an AICD can be ...

BRATTLEBORO — The town has installed its first publicly accessible, outdoor automated external defibrillator (AED) at Living Memorial Park, located outside the front entrance of the Nelson Withington ...

BALTIMORE – Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable defibrillator that has helped countless heart patients live longer and healthier, has died ...

For the second time in three years, a man who believes a defibrillator arrived too late to help his own son has used the device to save a life. Dr. Craig Levine, an oral surgeon from Merrick, was at a ...

Bystanders used an automated external defibrillator and CPR to revive a woman who collapsed at Duluth International Airport on Sunday afternoon. The woman was waiting to go through security when she ...