On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent ...

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

Long before the measles vaccine became the target of those who mistrust the science, a Boston researcher enthralled the world ...

Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a cure for polio. The year before, there were tens of thousands of ...

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.

Polio vaccine developers van Damme and Bandyopadhyay win Park Man-hoon Prize Vaccine innovators honored for groundbreaking ...

Pakistan is one of only two countries where polio remains endemic and it is aiming to eradicate it by 2027, but with cases ...

Bill Nye critiqued HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his views on science and vaccines at a STAT event in New York.

A new type of ‘vaccine scepticism’ has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University, who examined a ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux called for post-polio to be recognised as a chronic disease for medical aids to pay for ...

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 ...