We don’t discuss polio very often these days. While it took more than a decade, a vaccine was developed in the late 1950s. Short for poliomyelitis, polio is a highly infectious disease that is spread ...

The polio vaccine was created by Dr. Jonas Salk at a University of Pittsburgh laboratory about 70 years ago, and Pitt is honoring that legacy by opening a public exhibit of Salk’s personal equipment ...

Medical developments have made some devastating diseases things of the past, or manageable enough to live with. Ask students to record an oral history on the polio epidemic. Each student should ...

This 1953 photo provided the first-ever glimpse of a fearsome villain -- the polio virus, responsible for afflicting more than 400,000 Americans, mostly children, between 1930 and 1955. Fifty years ...

In Rome University’s Orthopedic Clinic, 1,133 polio experts from 49 nations gathered last week, but the vital question —how good is the Salk vaccine? —was not even on the agenda. Although masses of ...

Dear Doctor: I heard about a polio outbreak in Nigeria this summer. Might there be an outbreak here in the U.S.? Dear Reader: Polio is a crippling, and sometimes fatal, infectious disease that was ...