Daughter of reporter and editor Bill Cunningham on a quest to collect his accounts of iron lung treatment and physical therapy he received while recovering.

On February 23, 1954, the world’s first-ever polio vaccine was administered in Pittsburgh, United States. This day is also ...

A patient with measles died in Texas overnight, the Texas Department of State Health Services announced Wednesday.

Peek into the Past From the Feb. 20, 1947, edition of the Lyon County Reporter: Dorothy Tiedeman of Rock Rapids (standing in ...

The CEO stated that preliminary diagnosis indicated their condition was caused by a hereditary disease rather than polio. He said a committee had previously been constituted to verify the nature ...

Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Pakistan has ...

The polio vaccination drive in Gaza is exceeding expectations, the WHO said Tuesday as it warned of the impacts of US funding ...

The device saved the lives of thousands of patients (primarily children) whose lungs became paralyzed or weakened by polio, helping them to breathe, per Harvard Medical School. The iron lung has ...

However, with 100,000 cases per year, polio was a smaller public health threat than tuberculosis, heart disease, cancer, cerebal palsy, or muscular dystrophy.

Though paralysis is a less common side effect of the illness, post-polio syndrome can follow a patient years after they’ve recovered from the virus. In an old campaign advertisement, McConnell ...