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

I remember the day I received the vaccine. My mother took me to the local high school, where we joined a long waiting line. It was a warm day, and we stood outside. My mother was wearing a summer ...

And those who grew up before the polio vaccine was available have memories of children returning to school in leg braces, requiring crutches, or using a wheelchair due to paralysis after a bout ...

That was the question posed to polio survivor Carol Kramer one day in the early 1970s, when she was in her early 20s, by a blunt department store salesperson who had noticed the leg braces she ...

“I was in leg braces and had to learn to walk all over again.” In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25 and 40 percent of childhood polio survivor ...

By Lib Campbell Any of us around in the 1950s remember how scary the thought of contracting polio was. Mothers would insist their children rest in the summer afternoons. I remember pictures of large ...

"I was in leg braces and had to learn to walk ... the front to the back so I could stand." In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25% and 40% of ...

As recently as 2023, he said batches of an early version of the polio vaccine ... and I would take off my brace, and I would let them see my leg and ask them, is that what they want for their ...

“I was in leg braces and had to learn to walk ... the front to the back so I could stand.” In her early 40s, Lane was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, which afflicts between 25% and 40% ...