For more than 70 years, Paul Alexander — who died aged 78 this week — was kept alive with the help of ‘iron lungs’.
The spooky contraption, created in the 1920s, allowed him to breathe after he was completely paralysed as a child by polio.
It saw him lay flat on his back, with his head resting on a pillow and body encased in the metal cylinder from the neck down.
Polio, known medically as poliomyelitis, does not directly damage
A heartbroken father claims Martha’s Rule, which grants hospital patients’ relatives the right to a second medical opinion, could have saved his son’s life.
Balram Patel died at St Thomas’ Hospital in London in August last year from a build-up of fluid that flooded his lungs.
The 30-year-old had multiple disabilities and suffered from six conditions, including rare ones which affected his heart and lung, as well as liver cancer. His illnesses saw him spend weeks as an inpatient at
More than three years after the start of the pandemic, many Covid survivors continue to struggle. Some, especially those who became so severely ill that they were hospitalized and unable to breathe on their own, face lasting lung damage.
To better understand the long-term impact of Covid’s assault on the lungs, The New York Times spoke with three patients who were hospitalized during the pandemic’s early waves, interviewed doctors who treated them and reviewed C.T. scans of their lungs over
A grisly Viking ritual in which a victim’s back was cut open and their ribs and lungs pulled out of the hole to resemble wings was anatomically possible, a study found.
The ‘Blood Eagle’ is said to have been reserved for only the most hated enemies of the notorious Scandinavian raiders who lived from the 8th to the 11th centuries.
With no physical archaeological evidence nor contemporary written records, the ritual is known only from transcriptions of poetry and sagas
