OPINIONThis week's column is another excerpt from a book I am writing about growing up in Florida during the 1950s and 1960s. Again, despite t ...

For those who think polio belongs only to the history books, consider the story of Martyn Goulding, Salk neuroscientist and professor. His mother contracted polio as a child, leaving her disabled ...

Carol Ferguson (left) and Jim Smith, both of Pennsylvania, have post-polio syndrome, which is a condition that includes new muscle weakness, joint pain and other issues decades after survivors were ...

Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks to vaccines. All vaccines work by training our immune systems to ...

This day is also significant because the Gutenberg Bible was first published in Germany, paving the way for the ‘Gutenberg Revolution’ that made books and knowledge accessible to everyone In the early ...

As historian David Oshinsky describes in his 2005 book Polio: An American Story, the virus began breaking out in the United States at the end of the 19th century. Chances of a serious case of ...

Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast for Blanchard House Productions. MSJ from The Medill School of Journalism.

She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer ...