Choking

There are many challenges in caregiving dealing with activities of daily living. One that is frequently seen is difficulty swallowing. We often see this in people having difficulty with speech since those muscles are the same ones used to swallow....

An Indianapolis mother faces more than a dozen felony charges after investigators say video showed her repeatedly choking her 15-month-old son at a hospital. Police arrested Dashana Oldham, 20, on preliminary charges of neglect and battery after a doctor...

The friend of a slain Anderson man has now been charged with reckless homicide. Matt Hosier died on his 29th birthday after he and his friend, Dillon Barrett, got into an altercation at Lake Monroe. The probable cause affidavit said "Barrett was...

If you are a parent, grandparent or just a kind, loving soul, this next fact will tug at your heart: “More than 10,000 children under 14 go to the emergency room each year and about 77 die from choking on hot dogs.” As a former hospital CEO,...

If you are a parent, grandparent or just a kind, loving soul, this next fact will tug at your heart: "More than 10,000 children under 14 go to the emergency room each year and about 77 die from choking on hot dogs." As a former hospital CEO, that is not a...

The day after hip surgery, my father asked me to bring him a frozen coffee and something sweet the next morning. I returned to the hospital with a Frappuccino and a doughnut, one or both of which nearly killed him. He began choking and then turned...

According to Fox10 in Phoenix, an Indianapolis grandfather is accused of a vicious case of child abuse, occurring at the Grand Canyon. Christopher Carlson is accused of forcing his young grandsons to hike through the national park without food or water...

Well, after weeks of waiting, wiggling, complaining and a tiny bit of patience mixed with a lot of impatience, my daughter’s first tooth is out. The removal came down to her decision. We had our six-month check up at our dentist and the dentist...

A 30-year-old transient pleaded no contest Friday to choking a brown pelican to death because he "was hungry" and was sentenced to 60 days in jail, prosecutors said....

Popular writer Jonah Lehrer, who focuses on the science of the mind, moves from Wired to the New Yorker....

Steve Siegel knew just what to do when he looked across the table during a volunteer breakfast at St. George School in November and saw …...

LA Boxing instructors Mark (Mac) Daley and Robbie Cole took time to teach RedEye ‘Hoods eight self-defense moves that can be used if you are faced with an attack. These moves are based on Brazilian JiuJitsu, which is used as self-defense training....