“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 ...

“[The iron lung] is my cage ... “and maybe make their lives better like I wanted to be.” Paul Richard Alexander was born Jan.

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 ...

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. The device saved the lives of ...

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 Matt Rowe from Nomura Capital Management says ...