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.

Florida woman tried to sell toddler for $500, abandoned her: police According to The Ohio State University, the iron lung is a medical device that was used to treat polio patients, invented in the ...

The iron lung was an invention that helped keep thousands ... It’s not the first time we’ve heard dark stories of medical equipment from years past – t he story of the Therac-25 is ...

Twenty years after presenting the world with the new-famous iron lung, the University School of Public Health has come up with the "electrophoresis respirator," a device that may make the ...

The device saved the lives of thousands of patients (primarily children) whose lungs became paralyzed or weakened by polio, helping them to breathe, per Harvard Medical School. The iron lung has ...