My hope for 2025 is that all children, especially those living in the hardest-to-reach communities, can grow up protected ...

In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

As 2025 begins, public health experts warn of rising threats from infectious diseases like bird flu, measles, polio, and mpox ...

Whoopi Goldberg is here to remind us that Michelle Obama did it first. On this morning’s episode of The View, the longtime ...

Anti-science attitudes have historically encumbered societal progress in the U.S., often with serious ramifications, writes.

The 119th Congress is around the corner, and confirmation battles featuring President-elect Trump’s slate of nominees are set ...

EDITOR: The good within everyone is paramount to our democracy’s success. Most good people are satisfied with their lives.

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 tota ...

Our tech overlords have ruined the online platforms that Americans depend on. Now, as Donald Trump returns to the White House ...

Steve Cohen and Mitch McConnell are the only polio survivors in Congress. Cohen criticizes Trump's pick for health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr.

The 16-year-old has figured out how to adapt to the loss of function in her left arm. But that hasn’t stopped her from ...

In the early 1950s, before the polio vaccine, I caught it one summer. I spent time in an isolation ward, could not move and ...