Sometime over the next 48 hours, a Major League Baseball team is almost certain to ask a convicted, admitted child molester to play in its organization. It’s likeliest to happen Tuesday, during Rounds ...

A dog was spotted choking in a dramatic video before its owner jumped in to perform the Heimlich maneuver. In footage obtained by CCTV, a woman in Bangkok, Thailand, was seen making food in the ...

In August 1974, editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association contacted the doctor who had developed a new method to save someone from choking – then a major cause of death in the United ...

Henry Heimlich, the medical maverick who came up with a maneuver credited with saving thousands of choking victims but who damaged his standing as a proponent of the curative powers of malaria, died ...

“A serious matter has been brought to my attention,” the letter began. Addressed to an official in the Office for the Protection of Research Subjects at the University of California at Los Angeles, it ...

The Heimlich maneuver is a lifesaving method you can do on someone who is choking, or on yourself if you’re choking and alone. It's also called abdominal thrusts. Because babies can’t signal that they ...

How will the world remember Dr. Henry Heimlich? It may not remember him at all, as "abdominal thrust" is now the term of choice of the Red Cross and the American Heart Association for the life-saving ...