Mr. Kennedy, on the other hand, is a vaccine cynic, failing to accept studies that refute his beliefs. He claims that the ...

My mother, Alice Trumbull Scoville Barry, was born in 1911 to Sam Scoville, a Philadelphia lawyer, and his wife, Katy. The ...

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations ...

President-elect Donald Trump has praised the polio vaccine as the “greatest thing,” but a lawyer affiliated with Trump’s pick to lead the country’s top health agency has petitioned the US Food and ...

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Kennedy on Monday told reporters on Capitol Hill that he is “all for” the polio vaccine — comments that came hours after Trump said at a news conference that Americans are “not going to ...

As a physician, I already knew about the short and long-term effects of polio and the terrible, life-long, paralysis it can ...

I now suffer the effects of post-polio syndrome, which requires me to wear a brace for walking and standing. Many others were much more severely affected. Opinion: Vaccine skeptics like Trump nominees ...

In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

San Antonio was one of 10 Texas cities to take part in trials of Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine; some second-graders also had blood ...

St. Louis city has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the state. But counties across all parts of Missouri have also ...