Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, ...

Martha Ann Lillard, the last known person in the United States to rely on an iron lung after surviving polio, has died at age 78, according to reports, People reporfed. Lillard spent much of her life ...

Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has explained his month-long absence from Congress as the result of a fall at home, ...

I’ve written about polio several times before, but as one who was afflicted with this devastating disease in August 1955, I can’t express enough my horror that there is any conversation going on ...

New York on Thursday had its first recorded polio case in more than a decade, bringing back bad memories for a generation that remembers when the disease was a scourge. Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a ...