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Sometimes he went by the nickname, Mik. To the thousands of people, especially veterans, who listened to his hip-hop, he was known as Doc Todd. George Michael Todd was a Navy corpsman who served in Afghanistan with the 2/8 Marines — known as "America's Battalion." He died in Atlanta earlier this month at the age of 38. The cause was sudden cardiac death, according to his wife, Abigail. In 2017, Todd told NPR his album Combat Medicine was intended to help fellow veterans heal. One of his most popular songs, "Not Alone" is about empowerment, "about taking charge of your...

A young mother who had a cardiac arrest has told of the moment her husband saved her life with CPR – and is urging others to learn the vital skill. Sarah Edmonds, 33, who lives near Brighton, collapsed in her three-year-old daughter’s room and was found motionless by her husband James in December 2020. Sarah said thanks to her husband’s quick thinking she can still celebrate her daughter Arabella’s birthday and “see her face at Christmas”. She is urging people to learn lifesaving CPR skills with a simple online tool. It comes as a recent survey shows that just 50...

Saudi diplomat Mohammad al-Qahtani dies while giving a speech in Egypt

Argentinian reporter Carlos Ferrara collapsed during a live news broadcast on Argentina’s Channel 9 on Thursday during a news insert from a Covid testing center in the city of Buenos Aires.. As Claudio Perez, the presenter on Channel 9, thanked Ferrara at the end of the report, the reporter suddenly mumbled “Sorry Claudio, sorry,” and a thumping sound could be heard through Ferrara’s live microphone feed. Claudio looked baffled. “What just happened?” he asked. The cameraman then filmed Carlos Ferrara lying face down on the sidewalk with the microphone still in his hand before the feed was cut. According to...