Perhaps as might be fitting in this election season, Ashwin Vasan, M.D., began his article in Stat today with a remembrance of Franklin Roosevelt who, on Nov. 8, 1932, won the presidential election.

Responding to mounting concerns that the second Donald Trump administration may limit the use of vaccines after tapping prominent vaccine skeptics like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his cabinet, filmmaker ...

Mia Farrow went on social media on Friday to slam a “nightmare” report that a lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — ...

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed with polio ...

I’ve written about polio several times before, but as one who was afflicted with this devastating disease in August 1955, I can’t express enough my horror that there is any conversation going on ...

An emergency polio ward in Boston in 1955 equipped with iron lungs, pressurized respirators that acted as breathing muscles for polio victims, who often were paralyzed. AP I learned about polio in ...

In Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the nation-wide 04-day polio eradication drive  on Tuesday continued successfully for the 2nd ...

It always happened to a neighbor down the road or in the next county. Where did it originate? How did it travel from one family to the next? It’s still a mystery today — polio. Doctors concluded this ...

As I compile the Out of the Past, I read the daily news published in the Southeast Missourian for 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. It's a process I've followed for most of the years I've worked at the ...