Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, has explained his month-long absence from Congress as the result of a fall at home, ...

Polio hit its U.S. peak in the 1940s and 1950s, each year infecting thousands of people, most of them children. It caused paralysis and put a generation of children in metal leg braces, some in “iron ...

DUNMORE – It was a Friday in September 1953. Six-year-old Fred Garvey came home from first grade at Holy Rosary School with a wicked headache. That night, delirium set in as his fever soared. A doctor ...

CLEARWATER — After the Sarasota community rallied to buy a polio survivor a new leg brace, the company that provided it gave her yet another surprise. Kathi Coleman, a widowed polio survivor who ...