Our national memory is shorter than the first verse of the Star-Spangled banner, and that’s bad news if you’re trying to not ...

He pumped his wife’s respirator with a beer-can opener.

"I lost almost all of my hearing from measles. It was horrible. I was so sick. I missed so much of second grade that I went ...

I lived in a poor, Black community in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and was one of two children in 1959 who contracted polio as a result of getting the oral vaccine. I also had measles, tonsillitis ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Office for Accessible Campus Community & Equitable Student Support (ACCESS) ...

One state’s effort to exempt young school-aged children from vaccines appears to have stalled as states contend with a ...

During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of polio outbreaks in the United States. The polio vaccine became available in ...

What are the benefits of the polio vaccine? The polio vaccine protects against poliomyelitis (polio), a highly infectious ...

Mika Ashby started out with pins and needles only for his lungs to begin to shut down. He was rushed to intensive care and when the now 32-year-old finally awoke it was in the ICU needing support ...