Findings showed after 52 weeks, significant improvements in 2MWD and 6MWD were seen with Flebogamma 5% DIF 1mg/kg compared with placebo. Topline data were announced from a phase 2/3 trial evaluating ...

Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...

Decades after polio invaded his youth and almost took his life, Dr. Lauro Halstead is struggling with a second punch from the disease. Halstead is one of 125,000 Americans suffering from post-polio ...

STATELINE, Nev. – Tahoe Douglas and South Lake Tahoe Rotary Clubs joined hands on Tuesday, March 17 to host a presentation centered around their decades-long efforts to eradicate polio disease. In ...

World Polio Day is Oct. 24. I am a polio survivor, contracting polio in 1953. Most polio survivors cannot tell you who gave them the virus or exactly where they contracted it. However, I can tell you ...

Thanks to immunizations, children and their parents in the United States no longer have to worry about polio, but many of the children who survived having polio years ago are now having to deal with ...

This 1960 photograph depicts a nurse caring for a patient of a Rhode Island polio epidemic inside an Emerson respirator, also referred to as an iron lung. Devices like these were used by polio ...

In 1946, when James G. Richardson was 7, he contracted polio while playing with some friends. The Hartland boy was hospitalized for months, and woke up one day only able to move his head. Now, nearly ...