ANN ARBOR, MI - Liina Paasuke cannot remember a time without leg braces. A polio survivor from a young age, all her memories consist of walking with leg and back braces and crutches. The experience ...

But perhaps the most important thing she learned was how to walk with braces and crutches. It was the beginning of what Renner described as a new chapter in her life. There was life before polio, she ...

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 ...

George B. Molner of 71 Ridgeway Ave., won't be around this weekend to contribute to the March of Dives Blue Crutch solicitation. He'll be at Springfield's Wesson Memorial Hospital convalescing after ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children the ...

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed. By that evening, she was so weak she could barely move. It was 1951 when ...