Nanni became ill just before clinical trial sites came to towns all across the country for a new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh. The polio ...

Seventy years ago, a remarkable breakthrough changed the course of public health forever. On April 12, 1955, the world received the news that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was “safe, effective and ...

With a demand that vaccine boosters be tested against placebos, RFK Jr. puts an old antivaccine claim at the forefront of ...

The researcher is Dr. Jonas Salk, the 40-year-old scientist who developed the polio vaccine that bears his name. In 1953, less than two years after he became interested in the challenging problems ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly claimed that vaccines are not tested in ...

The Detroit Parks and Recreation Commission has announced plans for the naming of either a park or a playground for Dr. Jonas Salk, discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine. Meanwhile, an editorial in ...

NIH program to make vaccines against pathogens that can trigger pandemics uses approach pioneered in last century ...

Many thanks to Brad Hundt and the Observer-Reporter for Sunday’s excellent article on the development of the polio vaccine in 1955 ... Egypt – to the medical breakthrough made by Dr. Jonas Salk at the ...

When immunization levels dropped among teens in the 1950s, health officials needed a little less conversation, a little more ...

Polio ravaged human bodies for hundreds of years, but the misery began to wane 70 years ago when two polio vaccines developed in the U.S. halted the virus’ spread. Many Georgians who caught ...

Nanni became ill just before clinical trial sites came to towns all across the country for a new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh. The famous ...