Every now and then, while reminiscing with old friends about our grammar school days in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the dreaded word “polio” almost always comes up. Although polio was eliminated ...

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 hospital rooms ...

A child with polio learning to walk with crutches at Queen Mary's Hospital in London, England in 1947. Last month it was reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lawyer, Aaron Siri, had petitioned the ...

Polio hit its U.S. peak in the 1940s and 1950s, each year infecting thousands of people, most of them children. It caused paralysis and put a generation of children in metal leg braces, some in “iron ...