AT 11:00 A.M. IN THE MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM OF THE YWCA. TALITHA: IT’S NATIONAL CPR WEEK, WHICH MAKES A NEW STATISTIC EVEN MORE STARTLING. WOMEN ARE 27% LESS LIKELY TO RECEIVE CPR THAN MEN. RESEARCHERS ...

Democratic state Rep. Maura Hirschauer has introduced a bill aimed at reducing hesitation when providing CPR to women.

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 ...

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% ...

Every second counts in a cardiac arrest; yet gender disparity still shapes who receives lifesaving bystander CPR. This International Women’s Day, Magpas Air Ambulance is working to change that. In ...

When a person’s heart stops, their odds of survival are greater if a bystander immediately performs CPR. But having someone step in during this critical moment is not all that matters. A new study has ...

Many medical organizations stress the importance of knowing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and acting quickly if someone appears to be in cardiac arrest. But research has shown that less than ...