Ulmer praised Alexander's resilience, highlighting his remarkable journey from surviving polio to living over 70 years inside the iron lung. Despite his physical challenges, Alexander accomplished ...

During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of polio outbreaks in the United States. The polio vaccine became available in ...

The iron lung was an invention that helped keep thousands of sufferers alive, by breathing for those who had lost the ability through the degenerative effects of the disease. A small handful of ...

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 Iceland is one of the world's most volcanic ...

After being hospitalized, he woke up and found himself inside of an iron lung, which is a respirator that works a person’s diaphragm. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily ...

82-year-old Mona Randolph is a polio survivor and one of the last three people in the U.S. who still uses an iron lung Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything ...

Twenty years after presenting the world with the new-famous iron lung, the University School of Public Health has come up with the "electrophoresis respirator," a device that may make the ...