On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than ever.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

Alarmingly, many adults remain unprotected against polio. The disease continues to be transmitted primarily due to poor hygiene standards, posing a significant public health challenge.

Reporter My earliest supervised activities in the great outdoors were accomplished with my favorite uncle, Howard Blair Watson. To say that such activities were supervised might be a bit overstated.

Experts discuss what's fueling vaccine hesitancy in the Ozarks and how they're working to address concerns.

Elimination of Polio in 2014 and Maternal & Neonatal Tetanus in 2015, and the recent launch of the Measles Rubella campaign ...

A sharp spike in cases of pediatric acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, is raising red flags with health officials, who despite ...

In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent ...

Initiating pharmacological treatment in patients aged at least 80 years who have had a fracture appears to be beneficial, researchers reported at ENDO 2025. Gianina Flocco, MD, a resident at Cleveland ...