Putting someone in charge of our federal health programs who is seemingly indifferent to the millions of lives saved by vaccines would be a disaster.

The other event that comes to mind when I see Kennedy trying to cement his nomination is the six months I spent in the polio ward at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1956. Few remember, but Boston ...

Mia Farrow took to social media on Friday to slam a “nightmare” report that a lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human ...

Now the nation’s polio survivors are reliving their painful ... The movie director Francis Ford Coppola recently recalled being in a hospital ward “so crammed with kids that there were gurneys ...

“It is very hard to see her struggling to walk.” The polio virus spreads through contaminated drinking water. It enters at the mouth, migrates to the tonsils and then the gut. Here, the immune ...

In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue, headaches, stiffness and limb pain after exposure to the poliovirus, according to the World Health Organization ...