The cheers that greeted State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s announcement that Florida would become the first state to end vaccine mandates reminded us of a moment captured on film 70 years ago when ...

The year was 1955. I was 13 months old and my mother was feeding me on a spring morning while watching “The Today Show” on a black and white television with a tiny screen. Big news was announced – Dr.

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which later became March of Dimes, furnished the vaccine to children for free in 1955. A clipping from the April 12, 1955, News Tribune shows Dr. Jonas ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Oct. 6, 1956, Albert Sabin announced his oral vaccine against polio was ready for testing. Polio had been raging in the United States, with 21,000 cases of paralysis in 1952.

Jan. 31, 2011— -- In the Manhattan double townhouse where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recuperated from polio in the summer of 1921, billionaire Bill Gates on Monday began the latest ...