The book traverses India’s active role in global vaccine research landscape from 1890s to 1940s; the next two decades—1950s ...

On Nov. 22, in a guest essay published online by The New Yorker, Tatiana Schlossberg, one of President John F. Kennedy's grandchildren, lambasted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for cutting vaccine research ...

In the outer reaches of Perry Highway in Wexford, where the addresses have five digits, there is a Taco Bell. Before it was a Taco Bell, it was a Burger King. Before it was a Burger King, it was where ...

In the 1940s and '50s, polio was a summertime fear for every parent. An outbreak caused picnics, trips to the local fair or beach to be cancelled. Public pools in the cities to be closed. In 1955, ...

Back in 2022, everyone was surprised (and a little uneasy) when the news was announced that a man in New York had contracted poliovirus (polio, for short). After all, don't all children receive the ...

When I noticed the thin scab on my upper thigh, I was filled with 5-year-old pride. It was 1940. The dime-sized scab was my badge of courage and my ticket to enter kindergarten. A few days earlier, ...

Max Reynolds and the homemade iron lung. MARQUETTE — In the early 20th century, poliomyelitis, or polio, struck fear in parents around the world. The viral infection affects the central nervous system ...

World War II era cooking and the polio epidemic of the 1940s and 1950s will be on display on the lawn at the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, 1145 N. College St. in Mount Pleasant, on ...

Release Date (Film Festival – New York International Children’s Film Festival): March 1, 2025 Advisory Film Rating: Not Rated ...

Oct 24 marked World Polio Day. The date commemorates the birth of Jonas Salk who developed the polio vaccine. Polio is a crippling and potentially deadly viral infection that invades the brain and ...

In all my years, I don’t think I’ve anticipated a more worrisome year as I do going into 2025. This is not only due to a revenge-filled president-elect, but also due to his inexperienced picks for ...

I am a vaccine advocate, along with my husband, Jim. In the 1940s and 50s, polio was one of the most widespread and dreaded childhood diseases in the world, mostly affecting children under the age of ...