The cheers that greeted State Surgeon General Joseph Ladopo’s announcement that Florida would become the first state to end ...

As a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.

On April 12, 2005, I found myself at the Cathedral of Learning with students of mine from the University of Pittsburgh interviewing those who had worked with Dr. Jonas Salk to develop a vaccine that ...

The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which later became March of Dimes, furnished the vaccine to children for ...

Seventy years ago, the United States was a very different place. The average cost of a gallon of gas was less than 30 cents. Handheld cellphones were three decades away from being commercially ...

In “When Salvation Rode the Rails” (op-ed, April 2), Bob Greene uses a polio patient’s harrowing cross-country train ride with a malfunctioning chest respirator to pay tribute to those who stepped ...

Rich Willett contracted polio at the early age of two back in 1950, following which he was a March of Dimes poster boy and ...

Polio caused panic nationwide midway through the 20th century, with outbreaks crippling or paralyzing an average of 35,000 people in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...

Robert Siegel talks with Dr. David Oshinsky about the historic polio vaccination trials. Tuesday is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jonas... Jonas Salk's Polio Vaccine Trials Would Be Hard To ...

Advertisements for freezers, lounge chairs and remedies for itching, gas and constipation were on the fifth page of Uniontown’s Evening Standard on April 16, 1952, which was a Wednesday. As they ...