As August approached in the summer of 1952, I was looking forward to returning for second grade at Holy Rosary Elementary in ...
In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...
Attorney Aaron Siri filed the petition on behalf of Informed Consent Action Network, a group that questions vaccine safety. The petition criticizes the clinical trials done to license the polio ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S. By ...
The war against polio vaccines specifically has already taken a human toll. In 2022, a team of federal scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated a string of polio ...
An attorney advising Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's secretary nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is slamming a New York Times report this week ...
Scientists say such a test would be unethical. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg On the day in 1955 that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was pronounced “80 to 90 percent effective” against the form of the ...
Hollywood director Francis Ford Coppola recalls the "horror" of surviving childhood polio amid questions about the future of ...
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump expressed support for the polio vaccine, as his pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and allies have continued their overall vaccine scrutiny ...
Steve Cohen and Mitch McConnell are the only polio survivors in Congress. Cohen criticizes Trump's pick for health secretary, ...
When debates over the efficacy of vaccines emerge, as they increasingly do, there is a go-to example offered: the response to polio in the mid-20th century. Subscribe to How to Read This Chart ...
“I’m all for the polio vaccine,” Kennedy said to a throng of reporters on Monday. President-elect Donald Trump also sought to head off inevitable questions. “You’re not going to lose the ...