Announced around two years ago, YouTuber Markiplier’s efforts to bring the influential indie horror video game Iron Lung to the big screen have been largely shrouded in mystery. The film, which will ...

In the mid-20th century, community spaces like swimming pools and sporting events became a source of anxiety for parents who were frightened by the rampant spread of poliovirus. Their concerns weren’t ...

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Alexander contracted polio in 1952, when he was 6. He became paralyzed from the neck down and he began using an iron lung to breathe. Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul ...

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a ...

Paul Alexander: held the Guinness World Record for daily use of an iron lung for the longest period - GOFUNDME Paul Alexander, who has died aged 78, managed to attend university, publish a memoir, ...

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 ...

Paul Alexander’s death was confirmed by a longtime friend of his, Daniel Spinks, according to The Associated Press. Spinks said that Alexander, 78, recently had been hospitalized after he was ...