We need more than just Mitch McConnell speaking out in favor of the polio vaccine. McConnell is one of hundreds of thousands ...

The mystery surrounding Devin's leg brace is one of the biggest questions throughout American Primeval, and here is what the ...

“I’m not in a wheelchair yet,” said Lane, who uses leg braces and crutches, “but it’s heading that way.” The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she ...

And those who grew up before the polio vaccine was available have memories of children returning to school in leg braces ... in the U.S. long before men like Siri and Kennedy were old enough ...

It is amazing to me that in just 80 years, we have gone from the “Greatest Generation,” like those American soldiers of 1944, to the generation that rejects character as a necessity. History will not ...

On an August morning in 1949 when I was 6, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and ...

I also endured years of physical therapy. I now suffer the effects of post-polio syndrome, which requires me to wear a brace for walking and standing. Many others were much more severely affected.

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited ...

I also endured years of physical therapy. I now suffer the effects of post-polio syndrome, which requires me to wear a brace for walking and standing. Many others were much more severely affected.

I remember the terrible scourge of polio that preceded the vaccines. I remember a crippled friend gamely trying to play softball on crutches with one functional leg, the other immobile in a brace.