SARASOTA – Left leg strapped snugly into an aging brace, spine curved by an exhausted scourge from another era, diminutive Kathi Coleman is among the last of her kind. She is hard to miss as she ...

NeLo is a flexible leg brace that uses sensor data to help polio patients -- and people with sports injuries -- lock and unlock their knees when walking. The brace is designed to switch between being ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sharon McKinney was only 6 years old when she began complaining about a fever and a headache. The diagnosis was polio. After spending several months in a hospital in 1948, she ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OLATHE, Kan. — A Kansas man with polio who’s ...

Wearing name tags, they sit around tables, with paper handouts full of research spread around them. Within reach are pens and paper. Also within reach, on the floor, are crutches, walkers and ...

What Ebola is doing now across West Africa, polio once did across America. That is, until two New York University School of Medicine alumni — Drs. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin — developed lifesaving ...

Pakistan is agonizingly close to ending polio, and women are on the frontlines. Khyal Baro didn't vaccinate her children for polio until after her youngest son, Abid Ullah, was diagnosed with the ...

This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. Brad Fuller was a toddler when he contracted polio in 1952 and was sent to a hospital miles from his northeast Pennsylvania home. He stayed ...