SARASOTA – A 72-year-old, widowed polio survivor whose unorthodox swimming style rated a Jan. 31 story in the Herald-Tribune has been blown away by a community determined to keep her moving. “My mouth ...

NeLo is a flexible leg brace that uses sensor data to help polio patients -- and people with sports injuries -- lock and unlock their knees when walking. The brace is designed to switch between being ...

Polio hit its U.S. peak in the 1940s and 1950s, each year infecting thousands of people, most of them children. It caused paralysis and put a generation of children in metal leg braces, some in “iron ...