polio and post-polio syndrome

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell suffered a concussion after a fall at a local hotel and remains hospitalized “for a…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized after tripping at a local hotel on Wednesday evening, a…

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell tripped and fell Wednesday at a hotel and was hospitalized, a spokesman for the…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) In 1955, after a field trial involving 1.8 million Americans, the world’s first successful…

AP BERLIN (AP) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it will commit $1.2 billion to the effort to end polio worldwide.The money will be used to help implement the Global Polio Eradication…

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday the state was stepping up its polio-fighting efforts after the virus was detected in the wastewater of yet another county in the New York City area.Health officials…

Nurse Lydia Fulton prepares to administer the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine as well as a vaccine used to help prevent the diseases of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and polio at Children's Primary Care Clinic in Minneapolis,…

By The Associated Press The polio virus has been found in New York City sewage, but officials are stressing that the highest risk is for people who haven’t been vaccinated.Polio was once one of the…

By KAREN MATTHEWS and MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The polio virus has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in…

AP ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible “community…