ANorthern Virginia group helps polio survivors learn to conserve their energy to deal with the muscle weakness and fatigue of post-polio syndrome. This can be a tough lesson because the determination ...

Decades after polio invaded his youth and almost took his life, Dr. Lauro Halstead is struggling with a second punch from the disease. Halstead is one of 125,000 Americans suffering from post-polio ...

Health experts worry the policy change could lower vaccination rates and lead to a rise in preventable diseases — like polio, ...

Findings showed after 52 weeks, significant improvements in 2MWD and 6MWD were seen with Flebogamma 5% DIF 1mg/kg compared with placebo. Topline data were announced from a phase 2/3 trial evaluating ...

World Polio Day is Oct. 24. I am a polio survivor, contracting polio in 1953. Most polio survivors cannot tell you who gave them the virus or exactly where they contracted it. However, I can tell you ...

Members of the Post Polio Network volunteer at a recent health and disability fair in New Hope, Pa. Jim Smith was only 2 years old when he suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. It was 1945, ...

A polio survivor who is stricken with Post Polio Syndrome, Price is bed-ridden in her Charleston living room. At an arm's reach she has things that make passing the hours in a day possible: a ...