Medical science has profoundly changed our lives. I am sure that I would not have survived to this old age without antibiotics, advances in epidemiology and surgery. I was a child in the 1930s. We ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s a step back in time: Polio vaccines were delivered to Omaha nearly seven decades ago. Researchers at the Douglas County Historical Society are dusting off the archives and ...
When the world faced the polio pandemic in the mid-20th century, the reactions were similar to today. Travel restrictions were put in place, individuals and even towns were quarantined, entertainment ...
WASHINGTON, April 22, 1955 (UP) -- The drug industry urged the national polio conference here today to recommend creation of an impartial committee to supervise the distribution of all Salk vaccine.It ...
A lawyer working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has asked the F.D.A. to withdraw approval of the current shot because it hasn’t been tested against a placebo. Scientists say such a test would be unethical ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sharon McKinney was only 6 years old when she began complaining about a fever and a headache. The diagnosis was polio. After spending several months in a hospital in 1948, she ...
Just off U.S. route 30 in western Nebraska, on Buffalo Bill Avenue, sits the Lincoln County Historical Museum. Inside is an unexpected exhibit that I think about as a cruel and unnecessary measles ...
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