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

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

Paralysis that comes with polio results in the lack of any ability to move one or more arms or legs. All sensation is still there. What is missing and gone forever is the ability to move the limb(s).

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 ...

Here you had a swath of children coming in, and their manifestation of disease looked a lot like polio, which is something that certainly one generation, at least multiple generations of doctors ...

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 ...

“Polio, the first bit of polio symptoms was exactly the same as the flu. A lot of people were probably misdiagnosed with the flu rather than polio and there’s what’s called paralytic polio and ...

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

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 ...

Epidemic polio is one of them, and as evidenced in the magazines’ pages, the 1950s had plenty of that, too. An article from the April 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. [Proquest] Polio, short for ...

For Rossow, a 32-year-old surgery case coordinator in Springfield, Ill., the condition caused her to lose function in her entire left leg. “Every time that I take a step, I have to think about ...