polio

Outbreaks of an infectious, polio-like disease have popped up every other summer in the U.S. since 2012. This year,…

A group of scientists has a striking proposal for keeping people safe from covid-19. In a new paper published…

In 2014, a rare polio-like illness that attacks the nervous system of its often young victims first emerged in the…

Since 2014, doctors have been stymied by a medical mystery: People, mostly children, were coming down with a…

Martha Lillard spends half of every day with her body encapsulated in a half-century old machine that forces her to…

Thanks to the miracle of vaccines, we’re close to wiping out the polio virus. But that very success brings its own…

Chalk up a major win for global health: according to the World Health Organization, Africa has been free of wild…

Leprosy is not a disease of the past. Nor is it particularly rare. It’s one of the many diseases we get without ever…

There have been a lot of bad news this year. And a lot of good ones too. Sadly, many of the good ones never get the…

The Council on Foreign Relations maintains a map of global outbreaks of diseases that are easily prevented by…

Finally, some good news to report on the Ebola front: Nigeria and Senegal are now completely free of the disease.…

Sixty years ago, polio was infecting tens of thousands of children a year. In the past few years, despite setbacks,…

Vaccination rates are up and have been for awhile. The public is more convinced than ever of the importance of…

In North America and Europe, we don't worry much about polio. Vaccination has eradicated this terrible, paralyzing…

The vacuous anti-vaccine movement should take notice of what's going on in Syria. After less than three years of…

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended Prohibition, pulled the United States out of the Great Depression, and…

This short documentary by Tyler Bastian, Trevor Hill, Tim Skousen and Cameron Trejo is called Everything is…

In 1979, the World Health Organization successfully eradicated smallpox, removing one of history's greatest killers…

You may be familiar with the surreal anti-smoking PSA starring Artoo and Threepio and the drunk driving spot which…