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

As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited number of Salk vaccines to give to second graders. ...

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

Readers recount their experiences with polio and admonish attempts to revoke vaccine approval.

Robert F. Kennedy previously voiced his opposition to the polio vaccine, an immunization which eradicated the polio virus in ...

President-elect Trump has spent parts of the holiday season vowing to take over the Panama Canal, calling for the U.S. to buy ...

The 16-year-old has figured out how to adapt to the loss of function in her left arm. But that hasn’t stopped her from ...

The researchers used antibody response to measure efficacy, since this was decades after the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines ...

Indian-Americans who remember life before the polio vaccine are worried about what RFK Jr. could do in the U.S.

Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola recalls the "horror" of surviving childhood polio amid questions about the future of ...

St. Louis city has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state. But counties across all parts of Missouri have also ...

Steve Cohen and Mitch McConnell are the only polio survivors in Congress. Cohen criticizes Trump's pick for health secretary, ...