On February 23, 1954, the world’s first-ever polio vaccine was administered in Pittsburgh, United States. This day is also ...

COVID-19 showed the flaws in our approach to vaccine communication. Two public health experts suggest ways to fix them.

A mass polio vaccination campaign in children is set to continue in Gaza later this week after the virus was recently ...

Daughter of reporter and editor Bill Cunningham on a quest to collect his accounts of iron lung treatment and physical therapy he received while recovering.

Bipartisan efforts to amend a bill that will allow parents and guardians religious and conscientious objections to West ...

Pakistani police say suspected militants riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer assigned to protect polio ...

Senators considered several proposed amendments during a Tuesday floor session. The bill could pass the Senate as soon as Wednesday.

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the detection of the third wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2025.The lab confirmed ...

Polio is a dangerous disease that’s been largely eliminated in the United States, thanks to the polio vaccine (aka the inactivated polio vaccine, or IPV). To stay safe and maintain immunity in your ...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in the Gaza Strip would resume on Saturday, with over half a million children targeted.