The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has provided more than 2.5 million doses of Oral Polio Vaccines to the ...

People born before 1957 are so likely to have had measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) that they are assumed to be ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949. I was vaccinated against polio as soon as it was available, and I was most likely exposed to measles and whooping cough. It was during the ...

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed ...

I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949. I was vaccinated against polio as soon as it was available, and I was most likely exposed to ...

She came home with a high temperature, feeling very ill. The next morning, her legs gave out when she tried to get out of bed. By that evening, she was ...

He pumped his wife’s respirator with a beer-can opener.

Columnist Tom Purcell shares the story of his aunt, Cecilia, who contracted polio at age 12 and volunteered for Dr. Jonas Salk's early vaccine trials to help advance his polio research. Seventy years ...

Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health: from ...

Mirroring a national trend, child vaccination rates in Berks County have gone down over the last several years.

If you go to Joe Rogan for medical advice, you deserve everything coming your way. But, even by his standards, a recent ...

The conspiracy-curious podcaster interviewed a doctor who claims that that polio was eradicated through sanitation rather ...