The polio ward will house about 150 patients each year. Each patient has different needs -- some cases can be corrected without the help of a prosthetic, others need assistive devices, ...

And in 1948, when she was in her late 30s, she herself contracted the disease. Abbott recuperated in the polio ward of a San Diego hospital, spending her convalescence primarily among children.

An emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston in 1955. The city's polio epidemic hit a high of 480 cases. The critical patients are lined up close together in iron lung respirators ...

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An emergency polio ward in Boston in 1955 equipped with iron lungs, pressurized respirators that acted as breathing muscles for polio victims, who often were paralyzed. AP I learned about polio in ...

A childhood bout with polio propelled Art Caplan into his career as the nation’s pre-eminent medical ethicist. First in a series, leaders in health and science explain what gave them The Spark. When ...

After going to the camp infirmary, he was treated in the polio ward at St. Charles Hospital. | Photos by Danielle Silverman The emotional toll Ed Benjamin Reilly, 84, of Oceanside, will never ...

It was the 1970s, before vaccines eradicated polio in Brazil, and Machado was sent to live in the polio ward with eight other children. “It was a wonderful time.

He said he stayed in the polio ward for 10 days. A doctor would later tell him he'd "be able to live a long life" but "always in a wheelchair." But Coppola said his father, ...

Kavanagh points out that over 85% of the population needs to be vaccinated against polio before such herd immunity can take place. “Unfortunately, 70% of infections can be asymptomatic and those ...

I applaud Rotary International and all its members in its goal to eradicate polio worldwide. In the fall of 1955 while stationed in Boston, I saw a notice on the ship's bulletin board asking for ...