Any of us around in the 1950s remember how scary the thought of contracting polio was. Mothers would insist their children ...

After a career in medicine that spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century, Palm Beach County’s Sheila Jaffe writes ...

Thanks to successful vaccination programs across the globe, most of the world had been declared polio-free by the 2020s.

San Antonio was one of 10 Texas cities to take part in trials of Dr. Jonas Salk’s vaccine; some second-graders also had blood ...

Let's never have to tell our children why their sibling or friend died of a preventable disease like polio and measles. Join America's doctors, nurses, and health care professionals who say "no" to ...

POLIO (35D: Sabin developed a vaccine for it) Albert Sabin developed the oral POLIO vaccine (OPV). The OPV was easier to ...

Can you get a vaccine to prevent all cancers? Reports in Russia’s state-run news agency claimed this week that Russian scientists have developed an mRNA vaccine that has shown the ability to suppress ...

The polio Sabin vaccine, also known as the oral polio vaccine (OPV), is a live-attenuated vaccine that was developed by physician and microbiologist Albert Sabin. It was adopted by the WHO ...

Francis Ford Coppola, the Oscar-winning director behind The Godfather trilogy, has shared vivid recollections of his battle with polio, a disease that nearly left him permanently paralyzed as a child.

In rare cases, hepatitis B can lead to life-threatening complications like liver failure, liver cancer, or cirrhosis (liver scarring). The hepatitis B vaccine is a shot, typically injected into the ...

“Both those doctors who developed the Salk vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, they donated the patents of their vaccines to the public as opposed to what happens today where the companies ...