Martha Ann Lillard died at age 78 following a struggle with long Covid and the breakdown of her iron lung ...

Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age 78 after the machine, which ...

Martha Ann Lillard, the last known person in the United States to rely on an iron lung after surviving polio, has died at age ...

She lived more than 70 years at the mercy of the machine.

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus' spread. Many Georgians who caught polio in ...

Recently on Reddit, older adults shared their experiences with "childhood diseases" like measles and polio when they were growing up back in the day, and it's so important that we don't ignore these ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, hospital wards in the U.S. were filled with iron lungs helping many children, and some adults, who had polio breathe and stay alive. The use of polio vaccines have helped make ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Vijay Yeldandi was an energetic and rambunctious toddler when he was ...

LONDON (AP) — Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world’s ...