DALLAS -- Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to ...

I am a registered nurse and am also old enough to remember standing in a line to get a polio vaccine, then later, as a registered nurse, caring for patients in an iron lung. Vaccines have been an ...

Tucked away in the basement of the Harvard Medical School library is a large capsule-like contraption on wheels that is both a relic of the past and, public health experts warn, a caution for the ...