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 ...

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 ...

The World Health Organisation has launched a three-day polio vaccination campaign in Yemen, targeting 1.3 million children across 12 provinces under government control. Yemen is at high risk for ...

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 ...