SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (KFVS) - Southern 7 Health Department is one of the latest groups to join a national movement led by grandparents. Grandparents for Vaccines is a volunteer-led organization with the ...

When John F. Kennedy delivered his 1961 inaugural address, fewer than half of Americans had even been born. Still, his call to service, “ask not what the country can do for you, but what you can do ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lawyer and ally Aaron Siri petitioned the FDA in 2022 to revoke approval of the polio vaccine, which eradicated the disease in the US Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via ...

A lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the F.D.A. to withdraw approval of the current shot because it hasn’t been tested against a placebo. Scientists say such a test would be unethical ...

While Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, has backpedaled on his anti-vaccine rhetoric during his Senate confirmation hearings, ...

Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world’s most infectious ...

Wunsch is a distinguished professor and vice chair for research in the department of anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a ...