The man who relied upon an iron lung for more than 70 years revealed how he relieved himself while stuck inside of the ...

Here’s why the device fundamentally changed how healthcare providers today tend to patients facing many different kinds of life-threatening conditions. For many polio patients, the iron lung was ...

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In an attempt to combat mesothelioma as one of the longstanding risks of asbestos exposure, health authorities in the U.S. proposed the creation of a national registry to record new cases and expand ...

I lived in a poor, Black community in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and was one of two children in 1959 who contracted polio as a result of getting the oral vaccine. I also had measles, tonsillitis ...

Anemia remains a pervasive yet often underappreciated complication among cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, ...