New York has declared a disaster, opening up more vaccine resources, as wastewater samples suggest community transmission of the disease. Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on ...

World Polio Day is Oct. 24. I am a polio survivor, contracting polio in 1953. Most polio survivors cannot tell you who gave them the virus or exactly where they contracted it. However, I can tell you ...

Most American parents today can't fathom the horror that summers brought during the first half of the 20th century. Summer meant polio season, and whole communities waited in dread for an outbreak to ...

Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on health technology, eye care, nutrition and finding new approaches to chronic health problems. A case of polio, the viral disease that ...

"Some of the kids never stopped crying, not from pain, but from fear and loneliness." These haunting words from Peg Kehret's award winning book Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio remind us of a time ...

How will the Global Polio Eradication Initiative deal with the changes made by the Trump administration at a crucial time in ...

A health worker administers the polio vaccine to a child. The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health announced that a polio outbreak has struck there. File Photo by Hossein Fatemi/UPI May 16 ...

There are few more divisive issues in medicine today than the topic of vaccines. Until COVID, most Americans were glad to have their children vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, HepB, ...

Past examples of Israeli-Palestinian medical collaboration demonstrate that health can serve as a fragile yet enduring bridge ...

Odisha: Tension gripped Basudevpur CHC after the death of a three-month-old baby girl, just a few hours after receiving a ...