Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAMBRIDGE - There's a group of students at MIT and Harvard banding together to save lives by improving CPR training. "There is ...

Way back in the day, we used to pack up our cleaned CPR manikins, legs and all, into giant hard cases and drag those behemoths back to the storage room. The best you could hope for was to avoid ...

CPR education has a diversity problem, and social media images of slim, white, male manikins are only compounding the issue, new research makes clear. In an analysis of Twitter and Instagram posts of ...

When it comes to CPR, you gotta get grabbed. That’s why a new product, the Womanikin, is putting boobs on CPR mannequins. They’re not just for show: The altered model aims to combat the disparity ...

Ninety-five percent of CPR training manikins on the global market are flat-chested, possibly contributing to disproportionate survival outcomes for women after cardiac arrest, according to a study ...

(CNN) -- 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 ...

The study was published in the journal Health Promotion International. Learning CPR compression techniques on manikins without breasts contributes towards women being less likely to receive ...

Like countless other things in our culture, the plastic dummies used to train medical professionals and others to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are designed for men. Despite the fact ...

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If a woman drops to the ground in public experiencing a cardiac arrest, studies show, bystanders are less likely to come to her aid and perform CPR. Why? Breasts. That gender disparity — just one ...

It’s a sad reality that women who go into cardiac arrest are less likely to receive resuscitation from bystanders than men, and are more likely to die as a result. While researchers believe this is ...

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 ...