Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics ...

Developed during the 1920s, the iron lung was invented to help individuals with polio breathe after their torso and abdominal muscles ceased to work. Improvements to the iron lung were made throughout ...

One of the last polio survivors to live inside an iron lung has died at the age of 78 after the machine became too old to repair. Martha Ann Lillard died on June 26 after spending more than 70 years ...

With the passing of iron lung patient Paul Alexander, a look back at how the device paved the way for subsequent life-saving medical innovations. Long before the polio vaccine, there was the iron lung ...

Final 2025 CDC data show a record-low U.S. fertility rate of 53.2 and a 7% drop in teen births. What the numbers mean for maternity care access. Ric Flair, 77, was hospitalized after a Tampa fall ...

Martha Ann Lillard, the last known person in the United States to rely on an iron lung after surviving polio, has died at age 78, according to reports, People reporfed. Lillard spent much of her life ...

Iron lungs are considered obsolete, but you can still find a functioning one, among other medical marvels, in a Sacramento office building. The Museum of Medical History occupies the first floor of ...