Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has explained his month-long absence from Congress as the result of a fall at home, ...
The sister of the last known polio patient in the US to use the life-saving machine spoke to the BBC about her sister's life.
Polio survivors facing the little-known late effects of the disease are being overlooked, writes Neena Bhandari. Every year, 24 October is observed as World Polio Day, while the whole month is ...
Martha Lillard contracted polio at age five and relied on an iron lung to breathe, but COVID-19 left her dependent on the ...
Polio in the 1940s and 1950s paralyzed and killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide each year ...
Evidence that the virus is likely circulating in New York has reignited concerns over the disease. By Dani Blum During the slog of yet another Covid wave, and mounting monkeypox anxieties, health ...
That's how Thomas Francis Jr. of the University of Michigan School of Public Health announced the arrival of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine on April 12, 1955, to a stunned and grateful public. "People ...