Dr. Jonas Salk is credited with creating the first polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. The government licensed the ...

Cases have been rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and global health specialists are worried that this year's U.S. foreign ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks ...

On April 12, 1955, the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues was officially declared ‘safe, effective and potent ...

The 70th anniversary celebration of the Salk polio vaccine took place Friday afternoon in the Teplitz Memorial Courtroom in ...

Advertisements for freezers, lounge chairs and remedies for itching, gas and constipation were on the fifth page of Uniontown ...

In total, childhood vaccinations have saved about 154 million lives over the past 50 years. Most of these are thanks to the ...

Salk believed a killed-virus vaccine was the best approach to combat polio. Most other virologists disagreed with him. They favored a weakened live-virus vaccine that was predicted to be more ...

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part ...

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U ...

It will allow health workers to administer vaccines with the aim of reaching some 640,000 Palestinian children. The vaccination campaign comes after the first polio case in 25 years in Gaza was ...