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The cheers that greeted State Surgeon General Joseph Ladopo's announcement that Florida would become the first state to end vaccine mandates reminded us of a moment captured on film 70 years ago when ...

A simple blood draw may soon tell a cognitively healthy person how many years they have before Alzheimer’s symptoms begin. That is the promise of a peer-reviewed study published in Nature Medicine in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Jonals Salk painting Illustration by Ed Vebell/Getty Images Polio is a highly infectious viral disease that invades the nervous ...

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla has unexpectedly delayed construction of a $250 million science and technology center by three years. “We have substantial but finite financial ...

Most American parents today can't fathom the horror that summers brought during the first half of the 20th century. Summer meant polio season, and whole communities waited in dread for an outbreak to ...

A nationwide trial of an experimental vaccine using school children as virtual guinea pigs would be unthinkable in the United States today. But that's exactly what happened in 1954 when frantic ...

Jonas Salk stopped polio cold with the first effective vaccine. In 1954, cases numbered 38,968 and the public feared the paralyzing disease more than anything except nuclear war. Then came the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. Polio struck future presidents and poor children alike, ...

Polio is a highly infectious viral disease that invades the nervous system and can trigger total paralysis in a matter of hours. It mainly targets children under age 5, and at one time disabled and ...