The net result of mistrust is that vaccination rates have begun to fall dramatically in some areas of the U.S., resulting in ...

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 ...

Jonas Salk is among the most venerated medical ... and their three sons, with a polio vaccine made from this killed virus. Everyone who received the test vaccine began producing antibodies to ...

This was the reality for families before 1955, when Jonas Salk's polio vaccine offered a shield against this devastating disease. My own family history is intertwined with the scourge of polio.

The United States is experiencing a resurgence of diseases that were almost eradicated here due to a robust vaccination ...

This sentiment applies to an untold number of Americans but also to Dr. Jonas Salk, the virologist whose injectable polio vaccine Mr. Greene also mentions. I contracted polio in August 1955 after ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues being officially declared “safe, effective and potent,” jump-starting a vaccination effort ...

That's how Thomas Francis Jr. of the University of Michigan School of Public Health announced the arrival of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine on April 12, 1955, to a stunned and grateful public.

On the day in 1955 that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was pronounced “80 to 90% effective” against the form of the disease that caused paralysis, 500 medical scientists and 150 reporters jammed ...

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