Polio survivor Paul Alexander has been using an iron lung for 65 years. He went to law school in it. And now he's writing a memoir about it.

DALLAS (AP) — Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book ...

Alexander has died at the age of 78. He used an iron lung for decades, after contracting polio as a child. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News/The Associated Press) ...

Whereas the iron lung used NPV to facilitate airflow in patients, today’s ventilators use positive pressure ventilation (PPV), Mendez notes. The iron lung was less invasive than modern technology, but ...

A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree ...

Iron Lung have announced their first full-length album in 12 years, Adapting // Crawling, out April 18th via the band’s own Iron Lung Records. The single “Lifeless Life” has also been released.

The Seattle-based powerviolence duo Iron Lung cranked out a frantic string of fast, unhinged records in the ’00s and ’10s. It’s been a while since the last full-length, but the band members ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955.