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 man who relied upon an iron lung for more than 70 years revealed how he relieved ... He also revealed that due to his health condition, he only grew to the size of a 'very young man' and he stood ...

The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. The disease ...

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.* ...