Polio is a terrible disease. For thousands of years, polio attacked children and left them injured for life. Some lost ...

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, ...

October 24 is celebrated as World Polio Day annually. The fight against polio has been highly successful at the global level but the job is not finished.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Life is much different for Jim Stubbs today than when he made his first trip to Warm Springs, Ga., nearly 70 years ago. For one thing, he can walk. He uses a cane and wears a brace, ...

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 ...

President Trump on Thursday took a swing at Senator Mitch McConnell’s battle with polio after the 82-year-old lawmaker voted against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of Health and ...

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 ...

What is causing a half-million children to be vaccinated against polio in the Gaza War Zone? Polio is a terrible disease with life-long after effects. I know because I live with them every day. The ...

Rotary International's headquarters at One Rotary Center, 1560 Sherman Ave., is displaying miniature artwork in a new exhibit ...

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 ...

Joni Mitchell turns 82 today and has taken a backseat with her music career after suffering many different health issues ...

A few days ago, Ramesh Ferris took his first ride on a motorbike. Born in India and raised in Canada, Ferris made the journey into rural India to meet Ruksa Khatun, the 3-year-old girl who is the last ...