In 2016, the creator of the Heimlich maneuver, Dr. Henry Heimlich, used it to save a fellow resident in his retirement home. There are conflicting reports from Heimlich himself whether the 2016 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The American Red Cross last spring made a subtle change in its instructions for helping someone who is choking. Instead of specifying the Heimlich maneuver, it urged rescuers to do ...

The Springboro City Council honored Officer Randy Peagler with the Life Saving Award on Thursday. According to the Springboro ...

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 ...

He says dad is wrong in urging maneuver be used on near-drowning victims. Dr. Henry Heimlich twice cited a 1981 Dallas, Pa., near-drowning case as evidence that his Heimlich maneuver saves the lives ...

The innovations of Dr. Henry Heimlich extended well beyond his famed anti-choking maneuver. The Heimlich Chest Drain Valve gets blood and air out of the chest cavity of soldiers shot there. He also ...

There are conflicting reports from Heimlich himself whether the 2016 incident was the first time he'd used the maneuver in a real-life situation. A claim that the inventor of the anti-choking ...

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 after ...