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

The sister of the last known polio patient in the US to use the life-saving machine spoke to the BBC about her sister's life.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Measles cases have already been reported in most states in Australia this year. Cases tripled here last year, compared with the previous one. It’s hard to believe just over a decade earlier, in 2014, ...

Thanks to an incredibly successful vaccination program, wild poliovirus has been eliminated in the United States since 1979. For this reason, it’s not a disease that you hear about often in the U.S.

There are plenty of stressors today, as there were growing up in the time of the nuclear arms race and polio outbreaks. Iron lung (c. 1933) used to "breathe" for polio patients until 1955 when the ...

When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary talent. What they couldn't see were the braces and crutches he needed to ...

One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be catastrophic. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: Smith ...

Academic standards for college athletes being what they are, the legendary basketball coach Al McGuire spoke from a position of authority when he said, “I think the world is run by C students.” ...