From Fort Worth, Texas, and from Georgetown, Ky., public health officials reported local epidemics of infantile paralysis. About Fort Worth the disease has been a menace the past two months; ...

New York City, where one-third of the Nation’s 13,000 infantile paralysis cases occurred during this year’s epidemic, last week offered the Nation four important suggestions concerning the disease. 1) ...

Readers of the Reading Times must have been shocked by the front page headline on Aug. 26, 1916. “No Sunday School Of Any Kind Will Be Allowed Here,” it read. “Even Adult Departments and Bible Classes ...

In 1938 the FDA was given regulatory authority over experimental drugs. But it wasn't until 1961 that it regulated clinical trials and their methods. In 1954, a foundation performed a methodologically ...

Three Spokane children died of “infantile paralysis,” also known as polio. All of the children were in good health until they began complaining of sore throats. Then the paralysis quickly advanced.

As fearful as the COVID-19 virus is to us, to the baby-boomer generation and their parents, infantile paralysis from polio was an ongoing nightmare, and the crusade to develop a vaccine to wipe it out ...

COVID-19 isn't the first health crisis the United States has faced that experts say a vaccine will be needed to resolve: In the 1950s, people lived in fear their children might be stricken with ...

The United States Vocational Rehabilitation Administration has awarded a research grant of nearly 250,000 pounds ($80,000) to the Israel Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Hebrew ...