Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to ...

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

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

Mr. Ahmad’s story is echoed throughout Sector P1 of the new Farchana camp – known locally as the “wounded sector”– which ...

Vaccination has protected humans from an ever-lengthening list of infectious diseases: polio, yellow fever, diphtheria, ...

Polio Vaccine's Proud Pioneers Franklin Sherman Elementary School was the site of the first use of polio vacine in the nation. Wednesday, April 28, 2004 ...

The virus detected in a child from district of Diamer in the Gilgit-Baltistan region A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighbourhood, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, May 26 ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistan efforts to eliminate polio suffered another blow on Monday after a northern enclave reported its first case in seven years. Overall, it was the country’s 11th case ...

The government has proposed to wind down, in phases, the World Health Organization (WHO)-established National Polio Surveillance Network (NPSN), currently a countrywide network of over 200 units.