Misinformation has circulated for years on social media about how coughing forcefully can treat a heart attack. Health experts are quick to debunk that myth and warn that "cough CPR" is ineffective.

You’ve seen what a cardiac arrest looks like on television - the patient limp and pale, the alert lifesaver pounding their ...

Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...

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New research highlights the disparities between TV depictions of CPR and real-world data regarding the method, age and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A person’s chance of survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest decreases with CPR duration. The data could help ...

The posts instruct people to take deep breaths and cough “every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.” VERIFY reader Terrica sent us one of those posts; ...