A Chicago police officer saved the life of a 2-year-old Thursday afternoon just has he started his shift in the 17th district. Officer Tom Norberg, a 15 year veteran, was driving east on Montrose Ave. when a car pulled up behind him honking and flashing its lights. He let the car pull alongside side when the driver yelled out that her baby was not breathing. The mother told Norberg that the boy had been eating, but then started coughing and vomiting. more ›

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A new study from the University of Illinois' school of medicine found that the ideal number of chest compressions when performing CPR is near 100 per minute, or, as students discovered, the same beat of the Bee Gee's classic disco hit, "Stayin' Alive." According to CNN:

[Dr. David Matlock's] study involved 15 students and doctors and had two parts. First they did CPR on mannequins while listening to the song on iPods. They were asked to time chest compressions with the song's beat.