I contracted polio in 1953 and was put into a contagion ward. My cousin also had polio and it attacked his lungs. He was put in an iron lung, and it was (a) death sentence and he lived for three years ...

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 ...

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

Lung cancer is a disease in which cancerous cells form in the tissues around and inside the lung. There are various types of this disease. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a disease where cancer ...

Last month, a vaccine denier and public health conspiracy theorist was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. He only now acknowledges the importance of the ...

Far out. Poodle skirts, cat’s eye glasses, and iron lungs were all the rage the last time this roly-poly virus rocked around the clock. The advent of the polio vaccine decreased cases from a ...

Coverage with measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), polio, and varicella, or chickenpox vaccines, all declined in more than 30 states last year compared with ...