When 13-year-old music prodigy Itzhak Perlman performed on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1958, viewers could see his extraordinary talent. What they couldn’t see were the braces and…
Read more How safe is America from polio?(CNN) — Florida will move to end all vaccine mandates in the state, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday. The move would make Florida the first state…
Read more Florida plans to end vaccine mandates statewide, including for schoolchildrenFlorida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced on Wednesday that the state would soon be moving to end all vaccine mandates, including those that require children to be vaccinated…
Read more Florida Moves To Bring Back Childhood PolioIsraeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday morning, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers were wrapping up…
Read more Israeli strikes in Gaza kill more than a dozen; Health workers press on with polio vaccinesWhy are most cases of polio vaccine-derived variants? Most cases of paralytic polio are now vaccine-derived due to the success of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. OPV has…
Read more Why Polio Has Reemerged in GazaUnited Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children’s polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the nearly…
Read more At least 187,000 Gaza children vaccinated for polio so far, U.N. saysPalestinian health authorities and United Nations agencies on Sunday began a large-scale campaign of vaccinations against polio in the Gaza Strip, hoping to prevent an outbreak in the…
Read more Large-scale polio vaccinations begin in war-ravaged GazaThe United Nations health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious effort amid a devastating…
Read more The United Nations’ ambitious plan to vaccinate Gaza against polioThe threat of polio is rising fast in the Gaza Strip, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up…
Read more Aid groups in Gaza aim to avert a polio outbreak with vaccinationsDallas native Paul Alexander, one of two remaining users of the iron lung in the United States, died Tuesday at age 78, according to an announcement on his…
Read more Dallas Native Paul Alexander, Lawyer and Teacher Who Used Iron Lung Since 1952, Dies at 78Sen. Bernie Sanders is once again keeping drug makers in check, suggesting that people living with cancer are being preyed on by greedy interests. On Monday, Sanders demanded…
Read more Bernie Sanders Demands Probe of Proposal To Patent Taxpayer-Funded Cancer Drug | High TimesIn 1988, the World Health Assembly announced a very ambitious goal: Polio was to be vanquished by the year 2000. It was a reach, sure, but feasible. Although…
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