Michael Gingras, a 15-year-old sophomore at Victor J. Andrew High School in Tinley Park, learned the Heimlich maneuver a year ago during a brief lesson in gym class. Two weeks ago, on Dec. 19, that ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Springboro City Council honored Officer Randy Peagler with the Life Saving Award earlier this month. He spoke with 2 NEWS about the importance of learning first aid.

In Trumbull, Connecticut a 10-month-old baby was saved by local police officer James Sota with the use of an anti-choking device. With the baby’s lips turning blue due to a blocked airway, the officer ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (KCTV) - A Free State High School senior is experiencing something few people his age ever will: the knowledge that he saved someone’s life. Adrian Mendoza was working his after-school ...

MAYWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- A doctor thanked a cafeteria cashier for saving her life as she started choking at the Loyola University Medical Center. Emergency room Dr. Joan Dimopoulos was eating a chicken ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) SHREWSBURY ― A bartender at the Ground Round is being celebrated for saving the life of a choking patron. The bartender, ...

Fifteen-year-old Valeria Markiewicz saved a choking Texas Roadhouse employee, Dekari Henderson, by performing the Heimlich maneuver. Markiewicz learned the life-saving technique in a high school ...

The 'Five and Five', or most commonly the Heimlich maneuver, is a first-aid method for choking — when a person can’t breathe because food, a toy or another foreign item is blocking their throat or ...

“It’s just very emotional, I guess… just shocking to me that I was able to do that for someone," Natalie May recalled of her heroic action A Michigan high school senior’s recent education in the ...

A North Carolina second-grader is being hailed a hero after he used a lifesaving skill he learned on YouTube on a classmate who started choking during recess — in a dramatic rescue caught on video.

Jayceon Branch, 9, was playing basketball with his friends at Raleigh Oak Charter Elementary on March 3 when his classmate, 7-year-old Donye Moore, keeled over and struggled to breathe as he began ...

Dramatic video caught the moment a 9-year-old North Carolina student saved his classmate from choking by performing the Heimlich maneuver last week. Jayceon Branch, a student at Raleigh Oak Charter ...