Polio reached its apex in the United States in 1952, with roughly 58,000 new cases of the disease reported. People spent ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The chair of a U.S. government vaccine advisory panel questioned broad vaccine recommendations for polio and other childhood diseases and said promoting individual ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, hospital wards in the U.S. were filled with iron lungs helping many children, and some adults, who had polio breathe and stay alive. The use of polio vaccines have helped make ...

When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary talent. What they couldn't see were the braces and crutches he needed to ...

On 24th October every year, World Polio Day is observed all over the globe, in memory of Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who was instrumental in developing the first successful vaccine for polio. This ...

Vaccine programs are being challenged by rising misinformation and an uncertain pipeline for research funding, the World Health Organization's immunization experts said Wednesday. And the war in the ...

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