Kennedy Jr. is voicing his support for the polio vaccine as he tries to tamp down backlash over his longtime adviser’s efforts to roll back access to the lifesaving vaccine and win over GOP ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If immunization rates drop further over a prolonged period of time, measles and even other wiped-out diseases — such as rubella and polio — could ... small increases in vaccine coverage ...

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 ...