The man in the iron lung has passed away after leading an extraordinary life. Paul Alexander, who was confined to living in and using a cylindrical negative-pressure ventilator for over 70 years after ...

Alexander's social media manager shared at the end of February that he had contracted COVID-19 and been "rushed to the emergency room" Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to his ...

Alexandra Paul, a Canadian figure skater who competed in the 2014 Winter Olympics, has died, Skate Canada announced on Saturday. She was 31. Paul was killed in a multi-car crash in Melancthon Township ...

Paul Alexander was one of the last people to use an iron lung, having been left unable to breathe on his own after catching polio in the 1950s. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Former Canadian Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul was killed and her infant son was injured in a car accident last week. She was 31. According to The Associated Press, Paul and her infant son were ...

Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said. He was 78.

Former Canadian Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul died last week in a multiple-vehicle crash. Her 10-month-old son, who was in the back seat of the car, survived. Paul, 31, was killed in a ...