More than 100 relatives and friends gathered Friday to remember the life of Dr. Henry Heimlich at Memorial Hall. The doctor, who gained national notoriety after inventing his namesake maneuver, died ...

Henry J. Heimlich, M.D., died Saturday of a heart attack at the age of 96. The estimated 100,000 lives his namesake maneuver is credited with saving include Cher’s, Ronald Reagan’s and my younger ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — From chart-topping albums to life-saving maneuvers, June 1 has seen its fair share of history over the years. On this day in 1967, The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts ...

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There’s no counting the number of lives Dr. Henry Heimlich’s maneuver has saved.The retired chest surgeon, now 96, invented the Heimlich maneuver in 1974.Watch this storyNow, living at the Deupree ...

At the height of the crisis, the inventor of the famous anti-choking technique claimed HIV could be cured by injecting patients with malaria. New documents reveal how stars like Jack Nicholson and Ron ...

Henry Heimlich, the medical maverick who came up with a maneuver credited with saving thousands of choking victims but who damaged his standing as a proponent of the curative powers of malaria, died ...

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In August 1974, editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association contacted the doctor who had developed a new method to save someone from choking – then a major cause of death in the United ...