Martha Lillard needed a large respirator called an iron lung to recover from polio, which she caught in 1953. She still uses a form of the device at nights. (Courtesy of Martha Lillard) On June 8, ...

Glenn Pueppke, an Erie, N.D., farmer, has had his share of grief. He wrote Neighbors about it after seeing this column asking if anyone could identify with the iron lung machine. Here's his story: ...

(Gray News) – Paul Alexander, one of the last people who lived inside an iron lung, has died, according to reports. He was 78 years old. Paul Alexander contracted polio when he was 6 years old in 1952 ...

DALLAS — The family of Paul Alexander, the longest living iron lung patient in history, is hoping the machine that helped Paul can be salvaged for another purpose. Alexander, 78, died last week after ...

He’s been dubbed “Polio Paul” and he’s been reliant on an iron lung for 70 years. The Texas man is one of the last people in the world who still has one. According to a report by the New York Post, ...

On June 8, 1953, Martha Lillard celebrated her fifth birthday with a party at an amusement park in Oklahoma. A little over a week later, she woke up with a sore throat and a pain in her neck. Her ...