Editor's note: This story originally published on Feb. 5, 2014. Dr. Henry Heimlich died Dec. 17, 2016, at the age of 96. CINCINNATI – At 94 years old, Dr. Henry Heimlich could be expected to slow down ...

The innovations of Dr. Henry Heimlich extended well beyond his famed anti-choking maneuver. The Heimlich Chest Drain Valve gets blood and air out of the chest cavity of soldiers shot there. He also ...

CINCINNATI -- Dr. Henry Heimlich, namesake of the maneuver that has saved the lives of an estimated 100,000 potential choking victims, has died. The famed Hyde Park physician was 96. “He regularly ...

How will the world remember Dr. Henry Heimlich? It may not remember him at all, as "abdominal thrust" is now the term of choice of the Red Cross and the American Heart Association for the life-saving ...

Surgeon's name is still used around the world - but fame resulted in family breakdown Heimlich doing his manoeuvre on the actress and comedian Maria Gibbs Credit: Dan Callister/Getty Images Henry ...

Heimlich used the maneuver named after him in May to save a fellow resident at a Cincinnati retirement home where he lived. (JTA) — Henry Heimlich, who invented the life-saving technique to save ...

Dr. Henry Heimlich, the famed and controversial inventor of a maneuver to help choking victims, died early Saturday. He was 96. A statement from his family said Heimlich died after complications from ...

Henry Heimlich, MD, a thoracic surgeon who invented an anti-choking maneuver that saved an untold number of lives, died today at age 96 of complications from a heart attack earlier in the week. The ...

Henry Heimlich, who invented the life-saving technique to save choking victims, has died. Heimlich died on Saturday at a hospital in Cincinnati at the age of 96 from complications of a massive heart ...