“Polio Paul” Alexander spent his final days battling COVID while struggling to eat and drink, his social media manager has revealed. The polio survivor, famed for spending more than 70 years inside an ...

DALLAS – Paul Alexander, a North Texas man who lived in an iron lung for most of his life, has died. According to his obituary, he died on March 11. He was 78. To the world, Dallas native Paul ...

On a July afternoon in 1952, a 6-year-old boy ran outside in a Dallas suburb to cool off in a summer downpour. He splashed in mud. He slid on the grass. Suddenly, he felt ill. His head pounded and ...

Paul Alexander looked out from inside his iron lung at his home in Dallas in 2018. Alexander, who died March 11, at 78 used an iron lung to help facilitate breathing after suffering from polio as a ...

Paul G. Alexander, MD, MPH, executive vice president and chief health equity and transformation officer, RWJBarnabas Health, discusses how community partnerships helped ameliorate disparities in ...

Paul G. Alexander, MD, MPH, executive vice president and chief health equity and transformation officer, RWJBarnabas Health, speaks on strategies his organization implemented during the COVID-19 ...

He had dreams of flying kites and playing baseball, the imaginations of a man whose physical abilities had been interrupted as a young boy. What could Paul Alexander, who earned a law degree, operated ...

Paul Alexander, who died at 78, was paralyzed with polio at age 6 and relied on the machine to breathe. Still, he was able to earn a law degree, write a book and, late in life, build a following on ...

Paul Franklin Alexander, age 70, of Baldwin City, KS died on October 5th, 2025 at KU Medical Center surrounded by his wife, Marsha and their children. Paul was born on May 9th, 1955 in Lawrence, KS to ...

The polio survivor, famed for spending more than 70 years inside an iron lung, died Monday in Dallas, Texas, at the age of 78. While an official cause of death hasn’t been publicly disclosed, ...

Julia Falcon is a digital content producer at CBS News Texas. Julia has previously written for news outlets across Dallas-Fort Worth like the Denton Record-Chronicle, D Magazine, 1080 KRLD and 105.3 ...