On February 23, 1954, the world’s first-ever polio vaccine was administered in Pittsburgh, United States. This day is also ...
COVID-19 showed the flaws in our approach to vaccine communication. Two public health experts suggest ways to fix them.
A mass polio vaccination campaign in children is set to continue in Gaza later this week after the virus was recently ...
Daughter of reporter and editor Bill Cunningham on a quest to collect his accounts of iron lung treatment and physical therapy he received while recovering.
Every aspect of Grace Rossow’s life since she was around nine months old has been affected by polio. The vaccine-preventable gastrointestinal disease attacks the nervous system and can cause ...
Bipartisan efforts to amend a bill that will allow parents and guardians religious and conscientious objections to West ...
Pakistani police say suspected militants riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer assigned to protect polio ...
Two doses of the oral polio vaccine provides lifetime protection against the highly infectious disease. Before vaccines were available, hundreds of thousands of children were left paralyzed by ...
Although Kennedy recently expressed support for the polio vaccine, he had previously repeated statements that researchers say are not backed by science. The New York Times last year reported that ...