From phones in North Olean and a dazzling total eclipse to helping battling polio, from four lanes to NYC to waiting for a ...

“I was in leg braces and had to learn to walk all over ... Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of the polio vaccine in use for the last three decades until its safety can be studied ...

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 ...

Arm and leg braces, legs in slings, crutches, bodies totally ravaged in wheelchairs with paralysis. We were reminded daily that at any time, we could catch polio ... increase the use of riskier ...

Restaurants We Shouldn’t Forget Last issue of the Sun I offered a memory of restaurants that some of us knew and miss to this ...

But the spirits of the many thousands of American children who died before the vaccine appeared and the others, post-polio, including me — stuck with leg braces, crutches, walkers or wheelchairs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wild poliovirus was almost eradicated globally two years ago, but poor conditions are causing cases to rise in Afghanistan and spill into Pakistan. https://p.dw.com/p ...

The National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) on Wednesday said that the country’s first polio case of the year was reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district. Pakistan is one ...

As many as 11 polio cases were reported from DI Khan in 2024 while 73 cases in total were confirmed throughout the country, the NEOC said. The first nationwide vaccination campaign against ...

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 ...