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 ...

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.

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 ...

School districts in the south and southwest suburbs have different numbers of automated external defibrillators available, but officials have different opinions on whether the state should provide ...

A defibrillator has been installed at a sports ground in Loughborough. Charnwood Borough Council has worked in partnership ...

Prompt action is of utmost importance during sudden cardiac arrests and knowing how to use a defibrillator can save lives. Dr London explains how they work. Defibrillators are life-saving devices ...

A study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that people experiencing sudden cardiac death at an exercise facility had a higher rate of survival than at other indoor places, ...