(CNN) — Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was ...

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film Megalopolis, Coppola, who was diagnosed with ...

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning director behind The Godfather trilogy, has shared vivid recollections of his battle with polio, a disease that nearly left him permanently paralyzed as a child.

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

Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the iron lung supported patients whose lungs were weakened or paralyzed by polio.

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed with polio ...

The medical care for those who contract polio will be great and many who survive will need life-long care. News story:Francis Ford Coppola, who survived polio, has harsh words for vaccine ...

"Some of the kids never stopped crying, not from pain, but from fear and loneliness." These haunting words from Peg Kehret's award winning book Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio remind us of a time ...