On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux called for post-polio to be recognised as a chronic disease for medical aids to pay for ...

Polio vaccine developers van Damme and Bandyopadhyay win Park Man-hoon Prize Vaccine innovators honored for groundbreaking ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

A new type of ‘vaccine scepticism’ has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University, who examined a nine-million-word corpus of tweets looking at vaccine comparisons and evaluations.

What are the benefits of the polio vaccine? The polio vaccine protects against poliomyelitis (polio), a highly infectious ...

Currently, IPV is relatively expensive to produce because it requires high levels of bio-containment to minimise the risk of leaks of live poliovirus, which could result in outbreaks. VLPs are ...

Bill Nye critiqued HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his views on science and vaccines at a STAT event in New York.

A girl with polio meets one of the first children to get a polio vaccine. Bettmann/Getty Images By Elena Conis Graphics by Sara Chodosh and Aileen Clarke Dr. Conis is a historian of medicine and ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux, a polio survivor denied access to vaccine as a child due to apartheid policies, is fighting for ...

Mike Berger, from the Rotary Club of Lake Conroe, educated us on the history of polio and where we are currently.