Doctors have lambasted the US' most senior health chief for 'outrageous' claims made about one of the most life-saving vaccines.

While unable to file a lawsuit against the West Virginia Board of Education himself, Gov. Patrick Morrisey threw his support ...

Members of the West Virginia Board of Education gathered for the first time since a Raleigh County parent filed a lawsuit – ...

While unable to file a lawsuit against the West Virginia Board of Education himself, Gov. Patrick Morrisey threw his support ...

Doctors have lambasted the US' most senior health chief for 'outrageous' claims made about one of the most life-saving vaccines.

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children ...

Polio has been re-emerging in neighbouring countries, such as Somalia, South Sudan, and Uganda, raising concerns about the risk of cross-border transmission.

Since 2017, there have been 396 cases of polio caused by the wild virus, versus more than 2,600 linked to the oral vaccine, according to figures from the World Health Organization and its partners.

Doctors note that only one in 200 polio carriers displays signs of paralysis, making detection difficult without laboratory examination of stool specimens. “Immunisation remains the most ...

In April 1954, 16,000 Indiana second grade students were given the new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and manufactured by Eli Lilly & Co. By the late 1950s, the threat of the disease ...

AFM is caused by a virus that’s a cousin of the polio virus, earning it the nickname “the new polio.” Journalist and physician Eli Cahan joins Host Flora Lichtman to explain what doctors have been ...