Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability ...

Kennedy Jr. says about vaccines making daily headlines, it is timely to recognize that April 12 is the 70th anniversary of the most anticipated medical moment of the 20th century ‒ the polio vaccine.

Polio survivor Mitch McConnell condemned vaccine skeptics after a new report exposed a top ally of RFK Jr for requesting the FDA revoke approval of the polio vaccine.

Backlash is growing after a New York Times report revealed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr's lawyer asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine two years ago. NBC ...

New York pulls polio vaccine slogan over antisemitism allegations ... Despite the pressing public health need to encourage vaccination, Hochul pulled the ad truck in response to Brown’s ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in September – which expired Dec. 8 – after officials identified the polio virus in New York City as well as Nassau, Orange, Sullivan and ...

Rockland County Executive Ed Day this week slammed the state Department of Health and Gov. Kathy Hochul over a delayed audit of public- and private-school vaccination records. Amid the ongoing ...

Covid-19 vaccines helped stem the ... polio — an entirely vaccine-preventable disease long conquered in the US — made an ... prompting New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in September to declare a ...

Last month, New York state’s governor, Kathy Hochul, ... 7mn more children missed a third dose of polio vaccine last year compared with 2019, according to the WHO.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is discussing the use of an oral polio vaccine for the first time in decades in light of concerns of an outbreak in the New York City metropolit… ...

A man holds his 10-month-old baby daughter who suffers from polio, in Suleiman Khel, Pakistan, May 6, 2020 (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad) Before effective vaccines were developed, the disease, which ...

Nearly 29,000 polio vaccine doses have been administered to9 children in Rockland, Orange, Sullivan and Nassau counties since July 21, state health officials say, a 14% increase compared with the ...