Patients would stay inside an iron lung until they were able to breathe independently, which in the case of Alexander would ...

Paul Alexander, who was also known online as 'Iron Lung Man,' spent seven decades living in an iron lung after contracting ...

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 ...

After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body. When he died recently at the age of 78, Paul had spent more than ...

The iron lung is unable to cope with the irregular breathing ... It can still only be operated by a person very skillful in its use. Research on the respirator has been partly financed by the ...

“He shouldn't be alive,” doctors said as six-year-old polio-stricken Paul Alexander lay flat inside his seven foot long ventilator – nicknamed his iron lung. Paul, 78, from Dallas, Texas ...

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 ...

a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon, using a small submarine nicknamed the "Iron Lung".

These findings highlighted the complex interplay between aging, stem cell behavior, and iron metabolism in cancer biology. To summarize, the study demonstrated that aging impaired lung stem cell ...