Author, artist, and storyteller Marylou Rhodes announces Frank & Lucy Polio, a family biography centered on her parents’ ...

Martha Lillard was diagnosed with polio at age 5. For the past two years, she was in an iron lung nearly 24 hours a day.

Martha Ann Lillard, who spent nearly seven decades living in an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, has died at 78.

Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) released a letter to his constituents saying that his hospitalization was the consequence of a fall.

Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma. "They told her she wasn't ...

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Community health volunteers travel across remote northern Kenya to detect poliovirus before it can spread.

The sister of the last known polio patient in the US to use the life-saving machine spoke to the BBC about her sister's life.

Martha Lillard widely recognized as the last person in the United States to rely on an iron lung passed away on June 26 in ...

Through years of patient counselling and trust-building, nurse Gita Karmarkar helped replace risky home births with hospital ...

In writing his memoir ‘Lifted to Lead,’ the former teacher-turned-administration discovered how important it is to ‘hold the ...

Anaplasmosis is emerging across Canada as warming temperatures expand tick habitats, increasing the need for early diagnosis ...