The National Medical Commission (NMC) has released interim guidelines for the admission of students with disability, ...

During the summer of 1944, children under the age of 14 could not participate in some of their usual activities due to a polio outbreak in the Louisville area.

While polio often struck children, older people were not immune. The disease consigned former President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a wheelchair.

A mysterious polio-like disease could challenge our healthcare infrastructure. And, zooming in on non-cancerous cells in and around tumors.

Since 2014, a virus related to polio has paralyzed hundreds of children. Amid government cuts, what happens if the outbreaks worsen?

Rita Competti was discovered to have polio at age 2 Rita Competti turned 100 on May 29 LANCASTER − After turning 100 on May 29, Rita Competti is thought to be the oldest living polio survivor in ...

The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health announced Friday that a polio outbreak has struck there.

Measles, rubella, polio and diphtheria—once ubiquitous, devastating and deeply feared—have been virtually eliminated from the U.S. for decades. Entire generations have barely encountered these ...

A newly accredited genomic sequencing lab has improved the country’s ability to respond to polio outbreaks.

What are crutches for? To help an injured or disabled person get from Point A to Point B? Like most mobility devices, crutches are often designed and viewed in a matter-of-fact medical framework ...

More and more videos show Russian assault troopers advancing painfully on crutches. Bizarre as it seems to us, to the Russian military mind it makes a kind a sense.

While the Salk vaccine mostly eliminated polio in Virginia, a surprise outbreak led to a new push for immunization in Richmond in 1963.