Paul Alexander, a polio survivor who became known as "the man in the iron lung" died on Monday, aged 78. He contracted polio as a boy, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. Unable to breathe ...

“He shouldn't be alive,” doctors said as six-year-old polio-stricken Paul Alexander lay flat inside his seven foot long ventilator – nicknamed his iron lung. Paul, 78, from Dallas, Texas ...

Paul had survived a serious bout of polio, but had been left quadriplegic. After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his ...

The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down. The disease ...

“Paul’s contribution to Iron Maiden was immense and helped set ... Maiden had helped him pay medical bills for treatment of a lung abscess, saying that he would be “forever grateful for ...

Di’Anno died Oct. 21 at his home in Salisbury, England. In the years leading up to his death, Di’Anno had been suffering from ...