There is no cure for polio, but it can be prevented. Danielle Grant, MD, of Texas Children’s Pediatrics, shares more about ...

Even after three decades of aggressive eradication campaigns marked by public mistrust, Pakistan has failed to develop a ...

Kenny began her nursing career in rural Australia, where she gained firsthand experience caring for patients with various medical conditions. While she was an avid reader, she did not have a formal ...

Overland was a reporter and public health writer in Asia for more than a decade. She is currently an editor at NPR. My son was 5 years old when he climbed out of bed and landed on the floor. He was ...

A genetically modified polio virus improved the longer-term survival of patients with a lethal type of brain tumor, according to the results of an early-stage clinical trial published Tuesday.

A new and apparently successful treatment for infantile paralysis—reversing all accepted methods of treating the disease at its outset—was last week described to U.S. doctors. Instead of immobilizing ...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Life is much different for Jim Stubbs today than when he made his first trip to Warm Springs, Ga., nearly 70 years ago. For one thing, he can walk. He uses a cane and wears a brace, ...

McGuire died in 2001, so it’s unlikely that he ever heard of Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Panel on Immunization Practices (APIC), a 15-member committee within the ...

Growing up, my siblings and I would occasionally get to look through my mom’s scrapbook full of greeting cards from friends and neighbors and black-and-white photos of children in hospital beds. Too ...