My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes ...

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

In making similar claims about placebo-controlled studies, vaccine skeptics often take a narrow view of what a "placebo" is, arguing it can only be water or saltwater. In reality, ...

Steve Cohen and Mitch McConnell are the only polio survivors in Congress. Cohen criticizes Trump's pick for health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr.

The 16-year-old has figured out how to adapt to the loss of function in her left arm. But that hasn’t stopped her from ...

In the early 1950s, before the polio vaccine, I caught it one summer. I spent time in an isolation ward, could not move and ...

Reach for a hoe. These are the last nine snake years: 1917: It was the start of the Russian Revolution, the year the U.S. entered WWI, a war so horrible it killed 16.5 million people and was supposed ...

Indian-Americans who remember life before the polio vaccine are worried about what RFK Jr. could do in the U.S.

Coppola was saved by his father’s unwillingness to accept the diagnosis. Carmine Coppola was a composer who won Oscar scoring ...

While SV40 was present in early polio vaccines, it was removed decades ago, and there is no conclusive proof linking it to cancer in humans. Vaccines today are safe and do not contain SV40.

It hit me like a gut punch to read that an RFK Jr. associate, Aaron Siri, petitioned the FDA in 2022 to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. I never had polio myself. But when I was in ...

One of these petitions related to IPOL, which is one of the six polio-containing vaccines currently licensed by the FDA. The petition wouldn’t affect the other five vaccines. No one, least of ...