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

During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...

"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.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with healing a crippled boy, “Tiny Tim” Cratchit. We thought those Christmas ghosts ...