On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent ...

Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a cure for polio. The year before, there were tens of thousands of ...

Nobody complains that we have more cancer medicines available today than in the 1980s. Why should we complain about having ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread.

Pull a dime from your pocket and you will see Pittsburgh written all over it. The inscription simply reads “Liberty” and “In ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...

Long before the measles vaccine became the target of those who mistrust the science, a Boston researcher enthralled the world ...

American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine ...

Post-polio sufferers need regular physio to be mobile and experience relief from pain and spasms. As a post-polio survivor ...

The polio vaccine invented by Jonas Salk used this approach, and flu vaccines use this technology. These vaccines typically take longer to manufacture. Weakened and inactivated virus vaccines ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux called for post-polio to be recognised as a chronic disease for medical aids to pay for ...

In 1938, medical researchers Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis Jr. used the new flu vaccine to protect American military troops. This success led Salk to go on to develop an effective polio vaccine in ...