After the election, President Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. For decades, Kennedy has publicly opposed vaccines, and has involved himself ...

Now is the time to pull through on efforts to rid the world of polio once and for all, UNICEF argues in a new call to action.

Thirty-five years ago, polio, a highly infectious viral disease, paralysed around 350,000 children per year. Following a ...

For over three decades, Pakistan has been at the forefront of one of the world’s most ambitious public health campaigns – the ...

How will the Global Polio Eradication Initiative deal with the changes made by the Trump administration at a crucial time in ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- Doctors are now using a virus from a disease that's been largely eradicated to fight brain tumors. The polio virus is the latest weapon ...

Poliomyelitis, also known as polio, is a contagious disease caused by the poliovirus. Thanks to the development of effective ...

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

Sandpoint High School’s Interact Club raised over $1,000 to fight polio through Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign, aiming to ...

Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board (KSPHCMB) has confirmed the discovery of four new variants of the polio virus in the state, warning that unless vaccination is routinely sustained, the ...

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Health auth­orities in Punjab on Monday launched a massive Extended-Age Fractional IPV Campaign, aiming to vaccinate up to 2 million children with an injectable polio vaccine as part ...