Polio may finally be defeated in the next 5 years. Will the world recognize what an extraordinary achievement that is?

Carol Ferguson (left) and Jim Smith, both of Pennsylvania, have post-polio syndrome, which is a condition that includes new muscle weakness, joint pain and other issues decades after survivors were ...

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On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...

With rising measles outbreaks and what Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says about vaccines making daily headlines, it is timely to recognize that April 12 is the 70th ...

Polio, which once afflicted hundreds of thousands each year, was all but eradicated just a few years after this photo was ...

A new $1.9 billion pledge to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was just announced at the “Investing in Humanity: ...

Los Angeles, CA-ORIGINAL CAPTION: Until the polio vaccine came along, clinics across the US were crammed with iron lungs. Photograph ca. 1950. Earlier this week, President-Elect Donald Trump declared ...

Growing up, my siblings and I would occasionally get to look through my mom’s scrapbook full of greeting cards from friends and neighbors and black-and-white photos of children in hospital beds. Too ...

Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...