At the time, the machine was a state-of-the-art ... obsolete thanks to the near-eradication of polio and more enhancement of more modern breathing techniques. After Paul’s death, there is ...

Polio might seem like a disease of the distant past, but I know its dangers firsthand. To revoke governmental approval of the ...

Polio — short for poliomyelitis — is a ... for a person to make daily use of an iron lung. An iron lung is a breathing machine, which has since been replaced by modern ventilators.

Helps Polio Victims The electrophrenic ... When the current is turned off by the machine, the diaphragm relaxes and a normal breathing cycle had resulted. Unfortunately, it will be several years ...

And the sarcophagus-like iron lung, which uses bellows to keep the patient breathing, was once a common sight on polio wards. But all this feels like a long-forgotten era - and for good reason.

But it can be life-threatening - particularly if paralysis affects muscles used for breathing. The UK used to use a highly effective oral polio vaccine that came as drops. It has switched to the ...

Funds from the March of Dimes will enable the School of Public Health to continue studies in the breathing difficulties of polio sufferers for the fifth straight year. Four Harvard scientists will ...