As a physician, I already knew about the short and long-term effects of polio and the terrible, life-long, paralysis it can ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. If Kennedy rolls back the vaccine's approval, many will ...

"Some of the kids never stopped crying, not from pain, but from fear and loneliness." These haunting words from Peg Kehret's award winning book Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio remind us of a time ...

My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes ...

Let's never have to tell our children why their sibling or friend died of a preventable disease like polio and measles. Join America's doctors, nurses, and health care professionals who say "no" to ...

In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

Pakistan’s Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication has confirmed the detection of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) ...

As August approached in the summer of 1952, I was looking forward to returning for second grade at Holy Rosary Elementary in ...

Pakistan on Wednesday reported a new polio case in Tank, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, taking the previous year’s tally to 69, the ...

In the early 1950s, before the polio vaccine, I caught it one summer. I spent time in an isolation ward, could not move and ...

While polio particularly targeted children, others could contract the virus as well. When teenagers and young adults remained ...

and medical protocol for the new vaccine limited the vaccine to children in second grade. Unvaccinated, I contracted polio in September of 1954. Fortunately, I was among the lucky ones who ...