Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans. A ...

One of RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers recently floated the idea of stopping vaccination against the virus. It would be ...

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...

In the 1950s, my wife, who was six months pregnant, was stricken with the dreaded scourge polio and immediately hospitalized. To our misfortune, the Salk vaccine was just making its debut at the time, ...

An associate professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support 12 months of full-time study about the ...

Any of us around in the 1950s remember how scary the thought of contracting polio was. Mothers would insist their children rest in the summer afternoons. I remember pictures of large hospital rooms ...

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 ...