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"I'll tell you what I like: I like Orlando, Florida. Can't wait to be there." Operating under the moniker Iron Lung, Jon Kortland and Jensen Ward have breathed fresh air into the extreme music ...
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 ...
The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...
The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...
Iron lung machines - pressurised cylinders that draw oxygen into a person’s lungs by creating a vacuum - were once commonplace. Most people would only need to use the machines for a week or two ...
And so on Nov. 5, the child began her journey to St. Anthony’s Hospital encased in an iron lung in the back of a 30-foot truck. Little Wanda Lynn Ellis, 2, blue eyed, smiling, iron lung ...
Improvements to the iron lung were made throughout the 20th century, but the almost-obsolete hospital device still looks a lot like a machine used in interrogations or a cruel medical tool. Ranker ...
If you’ve been experiencing symptoms of low iron like dizziness, fatigue, or brittle nails, you’re probably looking for ways to take in more of the all-important mineral. For some folks on ...
A polio survivor, who lived inside an iron lung for 70 years, has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander, widely known as "Polio Paul", contracted the viral disease in the summer of 1952 when he ...
After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body. When he died recently at the age of 78, Paul had spent more than ...