Polio was eliminated from most parts of the world as part of a decadeslong effort by the World Health Organization and partners to wipe out the disease. But polio is one of the world’s most infectious ...

America’s scientific enterprise, once the envy of the world, is in crisis. Sweeping cuts to federal research threaten to ground what has been, for over 80 years, the most productive and innovative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, ...

UNICEF is working with partners to administer polio vaccines in the Gaza Strip, protecting children from the lifelong crippling disease. Limited humanitarian pauses are enabling the campaign’s success ...

Health workers are gearing up to administer a second dose of the polio vaccine to some 590,000 children in Gaza starting Monday. The first round of the large-scale vaccination campaign took place last ...

A large-scale campaign to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children against polio in the Gaza Strip launched Sunday. The three-day campaign hopes to prevent an outbreak of the virus – which was ...

(Editor’s Note: The Express is publishing an article and photographs that ran in 1956.) ...

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 the ...