Kennedy Jr. to his cabinet, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola opened up about his childhood experience with polio and the "horror" of spending 10 days isolated in a health ward with "screaming kids." ...

As a polio survivor, I believe that lethal diseases will recur if RFK Jr. is the next secretary of Health and Human Services.

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.

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 ...

Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, who was infected when he was 5, recalls the children he befriended on the polio ward, some of whom went “down to the ...

“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 ...

She is the author of the book The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care. Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer ...

A police officer working on Pakistan’s first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen ISLAMABAD -- A police officer working on Pakistan's first polio ...