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'It's almost like a coughing attack': Whooping cough cases on the rise

The highly contagious pertussis, known as whooping cough, is spreading around a Jefferson County high school right now. In a letter to parents, Corner High School said they have a small number of ...
Medical Xpress

Coughing won't save you if you're having a heart attack, despite what people claim on social media

A recent trend on social media has revived a curious technique from the late 1970s called cough CPR. A post claims that this method can help people, if they are alone, to survive a heart attack by ...
AOL

Can Coughing Actually Help You Survive a Heart Attack?

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Heart attacks are scary, and they happen way too often—the CDC estimates that someone has a heart attack ...
KREM

VERIFY: Does coughing during a heart attack help buy time?

Dr. Reginald Robinson- cardiologist with Medstar Heart & Vascular Institute at Medstar Washington Hospital Center and American Heart Association Board of Directors, President-Elect Dr. Dasia ...
Billings Gazette

Coughing may stall heart attack

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Coughing vigorously until an ambulance arrives could save the lives of heart patients who are going into cardiac arrest, a doctor said Tuesday. Dr. Tadeusz Petelenz, a ...