Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a cure for polio. The year before, there were tens of thousands of ...

Long before the measles vaccine became the target of those who mistrust the science, a Boston researcher enthralled the world ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux, a polio survivor denied access to vaccine as a child due to apartheid policies, is fighting for ...

What are the benefits of the polio vaccine? The polio vaccine protects against poliomyelitis (polio), a highly infectious ...

Pakistan is one of only two countries where polio remains endemic and it is aiming to eradicate it by 2027, but with cases ...

Polio vaccine developers van Damme and Bandyopadhyay win Park Man-hoon Prize Vaccine innovators honored for groundbreaking ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

A new type of ‘vaccine scepticism’ has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University, who examined a ...

Nobody complains that we have more cancer medicines available today than in the 1980s. Why should we complain about having ...

During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

Post-polio sufferers need regular physio to be mobile and experience relief from pain and spasms. As a post-polio survivor ...