82-year-old Mona Randolph is a polio survivor and one of the last three people in the U.S. who still uses an iron lung Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything ...

The polio survivor, Paul Alexander, lived inside an iron lung for 70 years. But what is an iron lung and how does it work. Video by Sanjana Bhambhani We go inside a New York City lab developing ...

Twenty years after presenting the world with the new-famous iron lung, the University School of Public Health has come up with the "electrophoresis respirator," a device that may make the ...

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 ...

Before the day was out, his breathing muscles gave out, he got blue in the face, and had to be put in an iron lung. Birdsall Sweet was never to escape entirely from his prison as long as he lived.* ...