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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

DEAR DR. GOTT: I had polio as a child. Now, at the age of 48, I am experiencing increasing fatigue, weakness and muscle pain. Could this be post-polio syndrome? DEAR READER: As we age, our muscles ...

Thanks to immunizations, children and their parents in the United States no longer have to worry about polio, but many of the children who survived having polio years ago are now having to deal with ...

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 ...