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 ...

There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there were a public hearing about the polio vaccine now, “I would go, 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 children?” she ...