On March 26, 1953, Jonas Salk announced he had successfully tested a new vaccine. Unfortunately, a defective batch was sent out produced by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, California that slowed down ...

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 more vaccines available?” writes physician and former Vermont Gov. Howard ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with healing a crippled boy, “Tiny Tim” Cratchit. We thought those Christmas ghosts ...

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.

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

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux, a polio survivor denied access to vaccine as a child due to apartheid policies, is fighting for ...

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 ...

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 ...