Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

Articles by Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma - AP News

Health July 12, 2026

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister sai�...