"I lost almost all of my hearing from measles. It was horrible. I was so sick. I missed so much of second grade that I went ...

On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent out produced by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, California that slowed down ...

Bill Nye critiqued HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his views on science and vaccines at a STAT event in New York.

Vaccine-derived polioviruses were detected in wastewater samples from 5 European countries in late 2024, but no human cases were reported.

Elon Musk defended the efficacy of vaccines after podcaster pal Joe Rogan interviewed an anti-vax conspiracy theorist on his ...

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

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

Columnist Tom Purcell shares the story of his aunt, Cecilia, who contracted polio at age 12 and volunteered for Dr. Jonas Salk's early vaccine trials to help advance his polio research. Seventy years ...

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

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

Vaccination not only safeguards the health of individuals but also preserves the collective health of our communities, ...

Pakistan's Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication has detected Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in sewage samples from 18 ...