Author, artist, and storyteller Marylou Rhodes announces Frank & Lucy Polio, a family biography centered on her parents’ ...
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Martha Ann Lillard died at age 78 following a struggle with long Covid and the breakdown of her iron lung ...
Parents carrying infants and toddlers queued up outside the Urban Primary Health Centre (UPHC) at Borabanda in Hyderabad from as early as 8 a.m. on Saturday (June 27, 2026), waiting for their children ...
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.
Pakistan polio vaccine film 'Shadows in Sunlight,' about health workers risking their lives to distribute vaccines, has been ...
Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age 78 after the machine, which dates back to the 1940s, began to break down — and no one could repair it.
The Pulse Polio vaccination campaign continued in Telangana on Monday (June 29, 2026) with the State Health department staff conducting door-to-door to administer the vaccine to children below five ...
From selling vegetables and driving an e-rickshaw to the Glasgow podium, Jhandu Kumar's fight through poverty and polio ends ...
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 Lillard was diagnosed with polio at age 5. For the past two years, she was in an iron lung nearly 24 hours a day.
She lived more than 70 years at the mercy of the machine.
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