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 Ann Lillard, the last known U.S. polio survivor who relied on an iron lung, has died at age 78. Learn about her ...

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 ...

Martha Ann Lillard, the last known American polio patient to rely on an iron lung device, has died at 78, with long haul ...

The last American polio patient to live in an iron lung has died at 78 and her machine was breaking down with no one left who ...

Martha Lillard spent nearly her entire life using an iron lung, a respiratory device used to facilitate breathing for polio ...

Lillard, of Oklahoma, contracted polio when she was five and slept inside cylindrical metal device to help her breathe ...

The death of one of the last known people to rely on an iron lung has marked the end of an extraordinary chapter in medical ...

Organ Care System, short for OCS, is a new, revolutionary machine capable of increasing the life span of donated lungs by literally keeping them alive and functioning once they’ve been removed from a ...

A medical device company with an organ transport system for heart and lungs that could extend the amount of time organs can be kept outside of the body, potentially increasing the number of organ ...