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.

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

Two documentarians who created films on the polio vaccine and vaccine hesitancy write that our obligations to our fellow ...

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

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

The polio vaccine, which saved countless lives in the 1950s, was not held back by political wrangling or bans.

As the school bells ring and we readjust to autumn schedules, we may count our blessings in the routine and find gratitude for the mundane, for it is not always so. Seventy years ago, in September 195 ...

Medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk studying slides in his laboratory, following the invention of his pioneering polio vaccine, ...

When I noticed the thin scab on my upper thigh, I was filled with 5-year-old pride. It was 1940. The dime-sized scab was my badge of courage and my ticket to enter kindergarten. A few days earlier, ...

The evidence for vaccine safety and efficacy exists in overwhelming abundance, accessible to anyone willing to examine it.

Salk neuroscientists discover brain area called gracile nucleus is central to the development of mechanical allodynia, a ...