How did it happen? There were many factors: increased spending on social and anti-poverty programs, improved health and ...

DANA STROUL is Director of Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served as U.S. Deputy Assistant ...

Aside from recent outbreaks of polio in war-torn regions of the world, the deadly virus is close to being eradicated, thanks ...

With measles outbreaks and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. making scary headlines, celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ...

Dr. Jonas Salk is credited with creating the first polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. The government licensed the shot in 1955 for its safety and efficacy.

Advertisements for freezers, lounge chairs and remedies for itching, gas and constipation were on the fifth page of Uniontown ...

The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans ...

On April 12, 1955, the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues was officially declared ‘safe, effective and potent ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

Salk believed a killed-virus vaccine was the best approach to combat polio. Most other virologists disagreed with him. They favored a weakened live-virus vaccine that was predicted to be more ...