The cheers that greeted State Surgeon General Joseph Ladopo's announcement that Florida would become the first state to end vaccine mandates reminded us of a moment captured on film 70 years ago when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polio in the 1950s. "People would keep their kids inside. They would not let them go to swimming pools," said Tingle Barnes.

A spinal cord transplant happened in people for the first time during a surgery in Russia, but the evidence underpinning it is lacking ...

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Most American parents today can't fathom the horror that summers brought during the first half of the 20th century. Summer meant polio season, and whole communities waited in dread for an outbreak to ...

When Linda Elovitz Marshall was growing up in the 1950s, she and her friends couldn’t go to the movies, swimming pools, ponds or lakes during the summer out of fear of catching polio. One year, the ...

"When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, ...

The total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. is set to top 400,000 before Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, but rollout of coronavirus vaccines has been slow, with many describing a ...

One of the most important virologists in history, Jonas Salk (1914–1995) was a leader in developing the first effective vaccine for polio, introduced in 1955. Polio is an infectious disease, often ...

As often as possible, it’s a good idea to seek business leadership lessons from non-business leaders, especially those for whom profit was not a motive. Here’s a great one. One hundred ten years ago ...

SEATTLE — The son of arguably the best known vaccine creator in the country on Monday received his dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, saying he was happy to take a step to help limit the spread of the ...