During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...

Paul Alexander was known by many names, such as “Polio Man” and “The Man in the Iron Lung.” He’s one of the most inspiring people in the world to us at InspireMore. I love how this great ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...

As an editor’s note says, “The author was a victim of polio in 1956 and stayed in an iron lung several weeks. It was then he learned that iron-lung patients watching sports get a completely ...

GoFundMe A man known for living his life in an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio as a child has died. Paul Alexander, also known as “The Man in the Iron Lung,” died on Monday ...

Iron Lung channeled this chest-pounding sensation into an aural assault that caught the ears of San Francisco label ...

The polio survivor, Paul Alexander, lived inside an iron lung for 70 years. But what is an iron lung and how does it work. Video by Sanjana Bhambhani Consumer inflation expectations could creep ...

Photo By Christina Hamilton On Adapting // Crawling, the first new album in 12 years from hardcore / DIY vets IRON LUNG (duo Jensen Ward and Jon Kortland) take head shots at mental health ...