We need more than just Mitch McConnell speaking out in favor of the polio vaccine. McConnell is one of hundreds of thousands of polio survivors who live in the U.S. However, many are now elderly and ...

I remember the terrible scourge of polio that preceded the vaccines. I remember a crippled friend gamely trying to play softball on crutches with one functional leg, the other immobile in a brace.

By Lib Campbell Any of us around in the 1950s remember how scary the thought of contracting polio was. Mothers would insist their children rest in the summer afternoons. I remember pictures of large ...

crutches, leg braces, breathing devices, deformed limbs.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who used a wheelchair throughout his presidency, is the most famous victim of polio. But at its approximate ...

Any of us around in the 1950s remember how scary the thought of contracting polio was. Mothers would insist their children ...