I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. If Kennedy rolls back the vaccine's approval, many will ...

In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes ...

In the early 1950s, before the polio vaccine, I caught it one summer. I spent time in an isolation ward, could not move and ...

Skeptics who have come to believe measles is a harmless childhood rite of passage have been duped by the stunning success of ...

On an August morning in 1949 when I was 6, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and ...

Thanks to Dan Rodricks for highlighting the efforts of one childhood polio survivor to remind us of the importance of ...

St. Louis city has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state. But counties across all parts of Missouri have also ...

Steve Cohen and Mitch McConnell are the only polio survivors in Congress. Cohen criticizes Trump's pick for health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr.

While polio particularly targeted children, others could contract the virus as well. When teenagers and young adults remained ...

Only by working together to find compromise on parts of the president-elect’s agenda can we make progress for Americans who ...

Children at the Jersey Shore are less likely to be fully vaccinated than others across the state. Here's why that worries doctors.