"I lost almost all of my hearing from measles. It was horrible. I was so sick. I missed so much of second grade that I went ...

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

On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent out produced by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, California that slowed down ...

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.

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

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

Vaccine-derived polioviruses were detected in wastewater samples from 5 European countries in late 2024, but no human cases were reported.

Elon Musk defended the efficacy of vaccines after podcaster pal Joe Rogan interviewed an anti-vax conspiracy theorist on his ...

Our national memory is shorter than the first verse of the Star-Spangled banner, and that’s bad news if you’re trying to not ...

Columnist Tom Purcell shares the story of his aunt, Cecilia, who contracted polio at age 12 and volunteered for Dr. Jonas Salk's early vaccine trials to help advance his polio research. Seventy years ...

Vaccination not only safeguards the health of individuals but also preserves the collective health of our communities, ...

It will allow health workers to administer vaccines with the aim of reaching some 640,000 Palestinian children. The vaccination campaign comes after the first polio case in 25 years in Gaza was ...