A round of applause from a lunchroom filled with students. A 6th grade teacher from Maine was presented with the national Red Cross Lifesaving Award. “There are only a handful of these that are given ...

CINCINNATI -- The surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich maneuver for choking victims died early Saturday in Cincinnati. Dr. Henry Heimlich was 96. His son, Phil, said he died at Christ Hospital ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen. The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was ...