DALLAS — A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law ...

Decades after polio invaded his youth and almost took his life, Dr. Lauro Halstead is struggling with a second punch from the disease. Halstead is one of 125,000 Americans suffering from post-polio ...

News reports say that RFK Jr.’s lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke approval of the polio vaccine. Does America really want to return to the 1940s and 1950s when millions of people died or were ...

Picture a summer in Seattle where you can’t go to the pool. Or the beach. Or anywhere with water. Ahead of World Polio Day on Oct. 24, Diane Cohn remembers that’s what it was like when she was growing ...

As pediatricians, epidemiologists, and professors of public health — as well as mothers — we are often asked if we recommend Covid vaccines for children. Those asking are often skeptical about the ...