An emergency polio ward in Boston in 1955 equipped with iron lungs, pressurized respirators that acted as breathing muscles for polio victims, who often were paralyzed. AP I learned about polio in ...

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Perhaps as might be fitting in this election season, Ashwin Vasan, M.D., began his article in Stat today with a remembrance of Franklin Roosevelt who, on Nov. 8, 1932, won the presidential election.

I was more than a little dismayed to read recently that the polio virus, which had been practically eradicated in the United States, has been detected in wastewater in the New York City area since May ...

An emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston in 1955. The city's polio epidemic hit a high of 480 cases. The critical patients are lined up close together in iron lung respirators so ...

(CNN) — Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed ...