Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Most people know that – it’s a statistic that has been repeated enough times that it almost loses its weight. What is spoken ...

People are less likely to perform CPR on a woman. The American Heart Association is trying to change that. If you suffer cardiac arrest, CPR can double your chance of survival. Yet women who ...

CAMBRIDGE - There's a group of students at MIT and Harvard banding together to save lives by improving CPR training. "There is very little female representation in the curriculum and so we thought we ...

Women who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) application regardless of the racial and ethnic ...

Thames Valley Air Ambulance include manikins with breasts in its CPR awareness sessions New figures show women are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR as many "feel unsure about touching a ...

Bystanders are less likely to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to women than men, particularly if the emergency takes place in a public area, according to research presented at the European ...

A COMMUNITY first aid training provider has introduced female manikins to its training in a bid to break a stigma over CPR ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Women are less likely than men to get CPR from a bystander and more likely to die, a new study suggests, and researchers think reluctance to touch a woman's chest might be one ...

(CNN) — Survival rates for Black women are far worse after bystander CPR than for White men, according to a study published this month in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. CNN — (CNN ...