Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the iron lung supported patients whose lungs were weakened or paralyzed by polio. This is its impact today.

“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 Seattle-based powerviolence duo Iron Lung cranked out a frantic string of fast, unhinged records in the ’00s and ’10s. It ...

The hardcore duo is returning with its first full-length since 2013. Iron Lung Announce First Album in 12 Years, Unleash ...

On a July afternoon in 1952, a 6-year-old boy ran outside in a Dallas suburb to cool off in a summer downpour. He splashed in ...

A total blitz of new DIY/hardcore punk is coming down the pipe from Nevada’s own Iron Lung after more than a decade of radio silence. That’s because on April 18, they’ll be dropping their new album ...

Then the machine removes that lower pressure to let your lungs and chest contract, helping you exhale. Iron lung. You lie down in this cylinder-shaped, tank-like machine, and it seals in most of ...

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 ...