News reports say that RFK Jr.’s lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Does America really want to return to the 1940s and 1950s when millions of people died or were ...

Picture a summer in Seattle where you can’t go to the pool. Or the beach. Or anywhere with water. Ahead of World Polio Day on Oct. 24, Diane Cohn remembers that’s what it was like when she was growing ...

Starting in the 1920s, people stricken with the most severe form of polio were placed in artificial respirators, called iron lungs, to keep them alive. Photo via the World Health Organization Doctors ...

People sometimes reject facts if the facts don’t support their views. Such it is with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services, who questions the safety and effectiveness of ...