Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than ever.

A rare disease cost Mandi Sedlak the lower half of her right leg. Instead of dwelling in self-pity, she focused on golf. Now ...

New York declares statewide emergency after wastewater testing repeatedly finds polio in four counties; man left paralyzed By Dr. Henri Migala Photo: Iron lung machines in Downey, CA circa 1953, U ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

A mysterious disease called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) has been appearing in emergency rooms for about a decade. The disease has caused otherwise healthy children to lose the ability to move their ...

Polio, short for poliomyelitis, is a viral disease that damages the nervous system and causes paralysis. Today, new polio cases are rare in the U.S. due to the polio immunization that was ...

Lloydminster played host to a Rotary district conference where speakers told their stories as polio survivors. The District 5370 conference kicked off March 14 with an opening ceremony featuring local ...

Polio in his left leg, no money for father’s last rites, once sold bangles, cracked UPSC exam, became IAS officer with AIR ...

An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung ...

An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung function ...

Polio, short for poliomyelitis, infects the intestinal tract. It can then travel to the brain stem, where it halts lung function and causes paralysis and death. As historian David Oshinsky describes ...

Until the vaccine, polio outbreaks paralyzed more than 15,000 people, mostly children, annually but decreased to less than 10 a year in the 1970s. Experts say that the virus can return on a large ...