Paul Alexander, AKA 'the man in the iron lung', was able to live for more than 70 years inside the medical contraption prior to his death. Polio may have been eradicated from most of the world ...

At least 51 bodies and 106 survivors have been pulled from the Stilfontein mine, South African police said Wednesday, with many more feared trapped inside. While estimates varied on how many men ...

A two-member bench of the Sindh High Court, headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar, heard the petition related to the repatriation of a Pakistani family trapped in Syria and sought the response from ...

Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped for months in an abandoned shaft ...

"By the end, I was just wondering how I would prefer to die." Spending 35 hours trapped in a pitch-black air pocket in the upturned hull of a boat has taken its toll on Lucianna Galetta ...

At least 100 people who were trapped in a South African mine have died, a group representing them has said. They were illegally mining in an abandoned gold mine and have been engaged in a lengthy ...

Five hikers stranded on a mountain in Hatta were rescued by Dubai Police after they were trapped on hazardous terrain and were unable to descend safely. Two air ambulance personnel, two pilots ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams have said. At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have ...

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have shown that a test called ORACLE can predict lung cancer survival at the point of diagnosis better than currently used clinical risk factors. This could help ...

As a medical student, I helped care for unfortunates in iron lungs. I have also worked during a measles epidemic in Sierra Leone. The complications of pneumonia, blindness, encephalitis and other ...

A school in Hereford is on lockdown, leaving children and parents trapped inside after a man with a weapon was reportedly spotted outside. Your Hereford reports a police helicopter was also seen ...