“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 ...

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

The iron lung uses a negative pressure system ... For Brooke Bennett, Christmas Day is juts another day as her two-year-old will be in hospital.

The answer was to place him in a so-called iron lung - a metal cylinder enclosing his body up to his neck. The lung, which he called his "old iron horse", allowed him to breathe. Bellows sucked ...

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 ...

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 ...