MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman who defied medical odds and spent nearly 60 years in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine ...

It is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and one Bronx woman is using her own story to save lives. Colette Smith never smoked a day ...

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 ...

Traditionally, lung cancer is associated with older patients, specifically men who smoked. But doctors say that's beginning ...

The tank respirator or “iron lung” was a medical device used to help patients with respiratory problems—specifically to help polio patients breathe when the virus reached the stage that muscles in the ...

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 ...