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 ...

The polio virus spreads through contaminated drinking ... These children would spend the rest of their years struggling with crutches, metal leg braces or wheelchairs. The images are difficult ...

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

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 ...

RFK also opposes fluoridation of water. Another patient, Judith, age 80, scoffs at such skepticism. She grew up in Niagara ...

Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today held a roundtable discussion with leading medical professionals on the importance of vaccines in America ...

She was the youngest of five children. At the early age of five, she contracted polio which led to a lengthy stay at Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colo. Despite this setback that required leg braces ...

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 ...

As recently as 2023, he said batches of an early version of the polio vaccine, contaminated with a virus, caused cancers “that killed many, many, many, many, many more people than polio ever did.” ...

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 ...