Polio hit its U.S. peak in the 1940s and 1950s, each year infecting thousands of people, most of them children. It caused paralysis and put a generation of children in metal leg braces, some in “iron ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — By the time Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was deemed safe and effective in 1955, it was three years too late for Joe O'Brien. "I was fitted for my first braces, leg braces, and I ...

CLEARWATER — After the Sarasota community rallied to buy a polio survivor a new leg brace, the company that provided it gave her yet another surprise. Kathi Coleman, a widowed polio survivor who ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — When it comes to beating the odds, Jean Maggi is a pro. After contracting polio as a child in Argentina and losing his ability to walk on his own, Maggi, 58, remains determined ...

Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the time she got to a hospital in Indianapolis, she was ...

A child with polio learning to walk with crutches at Queen Mary's Hospital in London, England in 1947. Credit - George Konig—Keystone Features/Getty Images Last month it was reported that Robert F.

Erin Olivera didn't know where to turn. It was 2012, and her 1-year-old son, Lucian, had suddenly become paralyzed from the waist down. While he was receiving excellent medical care from his doctors ...

I CAME down with polio two years ago, and the time intervening between then and now has opened up a new world to me. After my initial isolation period, I went to the orthopedic ward of a large general ...

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 ...

As a semi-retired family physician reflecting on the resistance to requiring covid vaccines for staff in our schools, I remember an earlier time when we were battling another scary virus. In the 195os ...