A fire service is using a bespoke female CPR manikin to help "reduce hesitation in people delivering emergency care to women" ...

The Illinois legislature passed a bill requiring female CPR manikins for schools, with most Republicans voting against the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women. And yet, women are less likely to receive bystander CPR to save their lives than men. "Bystanders are concerned about ...

This comes as the American Heart Association said women are 27% less likely than men to receive bystander CPR due to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If someone appears to be in cardiac arrest, doctors stress the importance of helping. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) Many medical ...

CPR mannequins are getting breasts -- with the goal of saving women's lives. The so-called Womanikin is an attachment for flat-chested CPR dummies that aims to change the finding that women are 27% ...

The Illinois legislative session ends at the end of the month. One bill working its way through the Senate was created by a ...

Despite going on numerous first aid courses, Chloe Lipton said she had never practised CPR on a female manikin A campaigner says she is calling for female manikins to be mandatory in CPR and ...

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 ...

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 ...

This comes as the American Heart Association said women are 27% less likely than men to receive bystander CPR due to hesitation or misconceptions about performing aid. "Allowing for students to have ...