Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live.

This story is dedicated to Loraine Varn McLain, who passed away on June 18, 2026. I didn’t know she was ill and hadn’t kept ...

When Isla Gurrola was born three and a half years ago, a California newborn screening test detected congenital hypothyroidism ...

Martha Lillard was diagnosed with polio at age 5. For the past two years, she was in an iron lung nearly 24 hours a day.

An Oklahoma woman, who was the last American patient to rely on an iron lung to live after she was diagnosed with polio at 5 ...

We are celebrating the 250th anniversary this year of signing the Declaration of Independence, but there is also another anniversary I think we need to annually celebrate. This year is the 71st ...

The Telangana health department will administer Pulse Polio vaccine drops to around 40.97 lakh children below the age of five across the State on Sunday, June 28, as part of the nationwide ...

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that ...

The risk of a major polio outbreak in the UK is now at its highest in ‘more than a generation’, leading pandemic doctors have warned. Falling vaccination rates and the government’s decision to end ...

The late forties were all about new beginnings. The war was over, millions of servicemen were returning home, and families were settling into a world that looked very different than the one they had ...

The production team behind the Peabody-nominated "Lost Patients" returns with a new investigative series: "Adults in the Room." Episodes will come out Tuesdays at midnight Pacific Time. Seattle, 1999.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country through the Great Depression and World War II, but was also the only ...