At age 85, Dr. Henry Heimlich is still actively searching for new cures for killer diseases and innovative ways to save lives. Fresh from swimming laps at a Santa Rosa hotel where he was guest speaker ...
How will the world remember Dr. Henry Heimlich? It may not remember him at all, as "abdominal thrust" is now the term of choice of the Red Cross and the American Heart Association for the life-saving ...
CINCINNATI (USA TODAY) -- Dr. Henry Heimlich, namesake of the maneuver that has saved the lives of an estimated 100,000 potential choking victims, has died. The famed Hyde Park physician was 96. “He ...
In August 1974, editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association contacted the doctor who had developed a new method to save someone from choking – then a major cause of death in the United ...
Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving InnovationBy Henry J. Heimlich(Prometheus Books, 253 pages, $19.95) Dr. Henry Heimlich is an American treasure. You undoubtedly know him from the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Patty Ris was having lunch at her old people’s home in Cincinnati this May when she choked on a hamburger. As ...
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