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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.
Iron Lung (and Fashion Change, to boot) return to the Sunshine State alongside Protocol, Ideation and more of the finest acts in modern hardcore for the Marching Orders Vol. 1 fest happening this ...
A total blitz of new DIY/hardcore punk is coming down the pipe from Nevada’s own Iron Lung after more than a decade of radio silence. That’s because on April 18, they’ll be dropping their new album ...
Iron Lung have announced their first full-length album in 12 years, Adapting // Crawling, out April 18th via the band’s own Iron Lung Records. The single “Lifeless Life” has also been released.
The Seattle-based powerviolence duo Iron Lung cranked out a frantic string of fast, unhinged records in the ’00s and ’10s. It’s been a while since the last full-length, but the band members ...
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.
Tragic tale of Wanda Lynn Ellis, a 2-year-old polio patient in an iron lung, transported to St. Louis in 1949. Despite hopes for recovery, her story ends in heartbreak a year later.
Developed during the 1920s, the iron lung was invented to help individuals with polio breathe after their torso and abdominal muscles ceased to work. Improvements to the iron lung were made ...
New images of Titanic emerge after recent expedition Striking new images from a recent expedition to the Titanic wreckage show the decay on the iconic ship's bow with a large section of railing ...
Paul Alexander was one of thousands of American children who caught polio in the 1950s, and one of the severest cases to survive. He did so because he was encased in a metal tube, an iron lung ...
A piece of medical history has found its new home at the Lancaster Medical Heritage Museum after sitting in storage for more than three decades.