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The list of celebrities who have performed or received the Heimlich maneuver is long enough to choke on. The bold-faced names who owe their lives to Henry Heimlich include Ronald Reagan, Cher, Ellen ...

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 ...

Patty Ris doesn't have a favorite seat in the dining room at the Deupree House, a senior living facility in Cincinnati, where she recently took up residence. But it turned out she picked the best one ...

It could have ended badly. TV presenter Daniel Boschmann (43) got into a life-threatening situation during a visit to a restaurant in Berlin. "I almost suffocated." ...

Updated at 7:50 p.m. ET.* Dr. Henry Heimlich didn't hesitate. When a fellow diner started choking, the 96-year-old was ready to perform the maneuver that he invented. This all happened Monday at an ...

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 ...

Henry Heimlich, MD, a thoracic surgeon who invented an anti-choking maneuver that saved an untold number of lives, died today at age 96 of complications from a heart attack earlier in the week. The ...

You’re dining in a restaurant when someone at a table nearby starts choking. As they gasp for air — and help — a bystander rushes to their aid. If the bystander in this dramatic scene were trained in ...

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 ...