A child with polio learning to walk with crutches at Queen Mary's Hospital in London, England in 1947. Credit - George Konig—Keystone Features/Getty Images Last month it was reported that Robert F.

Parents have expressed concern over serious side effects they claim their children manifest after getting the new round of the recently concluded polio vaccination. The process was conducted by the ...

Beverly Nereng remembers the fear and the devastation of polio. The La Crosse woman was 5 years old in the fall of 1931 when her 8-year-old sister, Jeanne, got the "flu" and within hours could not ...

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be ...

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 ...

Memories of polio epidemics are fresh in the minds of Lonnie Miller, Shirley Weis and Ron Schafer. Miller of Westby, Wis., was stricken with polio in September 1952. A janitor wearing gloves came into ...

Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer, Aaron Siri, had petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Lobbying to stop vaccination ...