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 ...
A study published in Nature Communications last week describes how markers of brain injury are present in the blood months after COVID-19 infection, despite normal inflammation blood tests. The ...
“Parents should prove themselves as responsible citizens by cooperating with polio teams,” he said. Meanwhile, in a meeting regarding the anti-dengue campaign, the minister said the health ...
There’s a reason you rarely hear about people catching polio—let alone dying from the highly infectious disease—particularly in the U.S. And if you’re under the age of 70, you’ve likely ...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who battled polio as a child, warned on Friday that anyone seeking a Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of associating with any ...
Kennedy Jr. after a report highlighted how one of Kennedy's associates had sought to rescind approval for a polio vaccine. McConnell, a polio survivor, said in a statement that "efforts to ...
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump expressed support for the polio vaccine, as his pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and allies have continued their overall vaccine scrutiny ...
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S. By ...
Scientists say such a test would be unethical. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg On the day in 1955 that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was pronounced “80 to 90 percent effective” against the form of the ...