While the Salk vaccine mostly eliminated polio in Virginia, a surprise outbreak led to a new push for immunization in ...

Dr. Jonas Salk is credited with creating the first polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. The government licensed the ...

Seventy years ago, a remarkable breakthrough changed the course of public health forever. On April 12, 1955, the world ...

"There really shouldn't be any cases at this point, because these diseases are preventable," said epidemiologist Mathew Kiang ...

In 2024, Pakistan's numbers spiked to 74 while Afghanistan saw 24 recorded polio cases. So far this year, Pakistan has ...

Stephanie Armour was formerly a senior special writer for health policy at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered such topics as the Covid-19 pandemic, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and ...

With three dozen confirmed cases of measles in southwest Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday that it’s important for ...

I loved the piece in Wednesday’s Union-Tribune about the polio vaccine, and about Jonas Salk’s selflessness. Both my husband and I went to school in the 1960s with older students who’d contracted ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan began Monday a weeklong second nationwide vaccination campaign aimed at protecting 45 million ...

These new cases are tied to disruptions in ongoing vaccine campaigns. Global health officials say there's real concern that those numbers could balloon and that polio could reemerge in other ...