August 1952, it's hot, like any normal summer. Dr. Bruce E. Douglass is 34 and riding home from Minneapolis in the back seat of a car. He develops pain in his lower back for the first time -- ever. A ...

Findings showed after 52 weeks, significant improvements in 2MWD and 6MWD were seen with Flebogamma 5% DIF 1mg/kg compared with placebo. Topline data were announced from a phase 2/3 trial evaluating ...

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 ...

My Nov. 13 health column about polio prompted Cheryl O'Hare, of Clear Lake, to write about Post-Polio Syndrome, a little-known affliction that appears later in life for many who were diagnosed with ...

The first known victim of polio lived and died in the 14th century B.C., during Egypt’s 18th dynasty. He is immortalized on a carved limestone slab, the Stele of Roma the Doorkeeper. In the carving, ...

Wearing masks, avoiding large gatherings, shutting down schools—those scenes might sound familiar to anyone who experienced ...

World Polio Day is Oct. 24. I am a polio survivor, contracting polio in 1953. Most polio survivors cannot tell you who gave them the virus or exactly where they contracted it. However, I can tell you ...

Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...

Decades after polio invaded his youth and almost took his life, Dr. Lauro Halstead is struggling with a second punch from the disease. Halstead is one of 125,000 Americans suffering from post-polio ...

Polio isn’t typically something most parents worry about — after all, there hasn’t been a case of polio originating in the U.S. since 1979 thanks to vaccines, according to the Centers for Disease ...

MOORPARK, Calif. (KABC) -- A 2-year old boy in Moorpark has become the latest child to be diagnosed with a mysterious virus that public health officials are now calling "California polio-like syndrome ...