On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...

An associate professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support 12 months of full-time study about the ...

The race to develop and distribute COVID-19 vaccines calls to mind another effort to eradicate polio. The scourge of the early 20th century paralyzed President Franklin Roosevelt. Tens of thousands of ...

My dad, Bill Cunningham, was a longtime employee of the Express-News. During his employment, he unfortunately contracted polio in 1956. After his recovery, he wrote a series of articles for the paper ...

I’ve written about polio several times before, but as one who was afflicted with this devastating disease in August 1955, I can’t express enough my horror that there is any conversation going on ...

Dr. Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, which has saved millions of lives. A simple story about a polio victim changed the writer’s mind. (Senator John Heinz History Center) I remember, when I was ...