Recent human trials of a new one-year-long immune-based treatment for post-polio syndrome, which can strike polio survivors ...

The measles outbreak is surging in West Texas, especially in under-vaccinated communities, but it’s not just coverage with ...

India plans to take over polio surveillance from WHO, entrusting the work to the National Centre for Disease Control. The ...

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...

Federal Minister for Health Syed Mustafa Kamal said on Sunday that polio eradication remained a national priority, adding ...

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine ...

It's a paradox of public health that being too clean can sometimes lead to disease. For centuries, infants were routinely exposed to the poliovirus in their unsanitary living conditions.

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation. In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue ...

At its worst, polio causes paralysis: 'Polio Paul' Alexander had to spend 70 years in an iron lung after surviving the disease as a child. Children are still at risk in Pakistan and Afghanistan ...

It was like something out of a Charles Dickens novel. This is not a disease that we want to relive. Paul Offit, MD The last case of polio in the U.S. was in 1979. But polio is still common in ...