President Franklin D. Roosevelt is perhaps the most famous polio sufferer and survivor. He was an adult when, in 1921, he was diagnosed with polio after awakening one morning unable to move his legs.

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to get rid of strawberry legs, a.k.a. those dark spots that make your skin look like the outside of—you guessed it— a strawberry, is a lot easier than one might think.

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