ANorthern Virginia group helps polio survivors learn to conserve their energy to deal with the muscle weakness and fatigue of post-polio syndrome. This can be a tough lesson because the determination ...

Decades after polio invaded his youth and almost took his life, Dr. Lauro Halstead is struggling with a second punch from the disease. Halstead is one of 125,000 Americans suffering from post-polio ...

Findings showed after 52 weeks, significant improvements in 2MWD and 6MWD were seen with Flebogamma 5% DIF 1mg/kg compared with placebo. Topline data were announced from a phase 2/3 trial evaluating ...

The first known victim of polio lived and died in the 14th century B.C., during Egypt’s 18th dynasty. He is immortalized on a carved limestone slab, the Stele of Roma the Doorkeeper. In the carving, ...

From a childhood spent inside a hospital to launching a global charity initiative, polio survivor Susanne Rea has shared her ...

World Polio Day is Oct. 24. I am a polio survivor, contracting polio in 1953. Most polio survivors cannot tell you who gave them the virus or exactly where they contracted it. However, I can tell you ...

Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...

Thanks to immunizations, children and their parents in the United States no longer have to worry about polio, but many of the children who survived having polio years ago are now having to deal with ...

Health experts worry the policy change could lower vaccination rates and lead to a rise in preventable diseases — like polio, ...

A polio survivor who is stricken with Post Polio Syndrome, Price is bed-ridden in her Charleston living room. At an arm's reach she has things that make passing the hours in a day possible: a ...