WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump expressed support for the polio vaccine, as his pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and allies have continued their overall vaccine scrutiny ...

Polio cases are rising ahead of a new vaccination campaign in Pakistan, where violence targeting health workers and the police protecting them has hampered years of efforts toward making the ...

WASHINGTON - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, took an apparent swipe at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after reports that one of Kennedy’s top allies, Aaron Siri, petitioned the ...

That could change very quickly if polio vaccination rates dropped or the vaccine were to become less accessible. ... She didn’t participate in the 1963 March on Washington or play sports, ...

Polio Vaccine's Proud Pioneers Franklin Sherman Elementary School was the site of the first use of polio vacine in the nation. Wednesday, April 28, 2004 ...

Mr. Kennedy, now 70, said the polio vaccine contained a virus called Simian Virus 40, or SV40, ... Sheryl Gay Stolberg covers health policy for The Times from Washington.

A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a hospital in Khan Younis, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) “There must be a cease-fire so that the teams can reach ...

The pandemic dealt a heavy blow to vaccination rates, with an estimated 15 million children missing routine shots between ...

Vaccine hesitancy, unequal access to healthcare and long-lasting disruptions caused by the pandemic are factors behind the ...

It also reported on a delay of vaccine shipments coming to Pennsylvania because inspections had been held up. One Washington County boy played a particularly crucial role in the vaccine’s development.

On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the first polio vaccine, which was instantly approved. Before vaccines were available, polio caused 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US each year. The US ...