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

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949. I was vaccinated against polio as soon as it was available, and I was most likely exposed to measles and whooping cough. It was during the ...

Over much of the U.S., polio was rampant last week. The Public Health Service reported 2,648 fresh cases in a single week, boosting the total for the “disease year” (which begins in late March) to ...

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 ...

Now is the time to pull through on efforts to rid the world of polio once and for all — or continue managing it through costly outbreak responses, UNICEF argues in a new call to action. Support UNICEF ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children the ...

Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks to vaccines. All vaccines work by training our immune systems to recognise ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949. I was vaccinated against polio as soon as it was available, and I was most likely exposed to measles and whooping cough. It was during the ...

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949. I was vaccinated against polio as soon as it was available, and I was most likely exposed to measles and whooping cough. It was during the ...