Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LANCASTER − After turning 100 on May 29, Rita Competti is thought to be the oldest living polio survivor in the country and maybe ...

Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said. He was 78.

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An arctic blast is moving into Colorado after months of record warmth; we talk about the impact with Denver7 chief meteorologist Lisa Hidalgo. Then, a survivor of childhood polio shares her story in ...

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 ...

Paul Alexander spent a lifetime encased in the iron lung. (Image: gofundme.com/f/IronLungsPaul) Paul Alexander, famously known as "the man with the iron lung," died ...

HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — In a tiny room in the center of Herat, Afghanistan’s westernmost city, Shahabuddin uses his hands to propel himself along the floor to a freshly-made pile of socks waiting to ...

SEBRING, Fla. — A push to expand parental choice for vaccines is moving through the Florida Legislature. The proposed measure, dubbed the Medical Freedom bill, would allow for conscience-based ...

Many Americans have forgotten the reality of infectious diseases like polio. Permanently disabled survivors all over the world want to remind the public that polio anywhere is a threat everywhere. The ...