Considered by public health officials to be one of the greatest success stories in recent history, the polio vaccine is currently the subject of a petition by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lawyer to ...

Fears of polio gripped the U.S. in the mid-20th century. Parents were afraid to send their children to birthday parties, public pools or any place where children mingled. Children in wheelchairs ...

For The Backstory, we took a look at the history of the polio vaccine. US flags ordered to fly at half-staff in every state this weekend 'Days of Our Lives' star Patrick Muldoon's cause of death is ...

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that ...

America’s scientific enterprise, once the envy of the world, is in crisis. Sweeping cuts to federal research threaten to ground what has been, for over 80 years, the most productive and innovative ...

Attendees at a recent Rotary Club of Mount Pleasant meeting were brought up to speed on Rotary International's mission to rid the world of polio, which is currently endemic in only two countries: ...

Polio is one of the greatest scourges and most feared diseases of our times. The viral illness affects nerves in the spinal cord and brain and can strike without warning or symptoms. The result can be ...

The single entry on 29 October in my dad's 1949 diary indicates that I had contracted polio in one of its periodic epidemics. I was to spend the best part of my fourth year in Treloar's Orthopaedic ...