Fifty years ago a group of school children from Franklin Sherman Elementary school in McLean led the nation and the world in the eradication of polio. On April 26, 1954 Dr. Richard Mulvaney ...

In this profile, we meet Glenice who was treated for polio at SickKids when she was six years old in 1956. She speaks about her own experience, but also how the hospital was there when her ...

As he prepares to leave his post, he said Pakistan is closer than ever to becoming polio-free.

SHILLINGTON, Pa. - Rite Aid has filed for bankruptcy protection, again, and announced plans to sell off prescriptions, inventory, and other assets as it navigates Chapter 11 proceedings.

If you are worried about using this medicine, speak to your doctor or pharmacist. Adacel Polio contains the active ingredients diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, pertussis toxoid, pertussis ...

Orthoses are widely used in the management of children with CP even though there is no robust evidence for its effect. [8,9] The ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) is the most frequently used type of ...

Leana S. Wen, a Washington Post contributing columnist, writes a twice-weekly column on a broad range of topics with an emphasis on public health and health policy. She writes the newsletter The ...

He died March 4 at his home in Toms River, New Jersey. His wife said he died of acute respiratory failure brought on by post-polio syndrome, a condition that affects polio survivors years after ...

Dan Lamothe joined The Washington Post in 2014 to cover the U.S. military. He has written about the Armed Forces since 2008, traveling extensively, embedding with five branches of service and ...

AFO: Ankle-foot orthosis; CP: Cerebral palsy; CPUP: Cerebral palsy follow up programme and quality registry; GMFCS: Gross motor function classification system; ROM: Joint range of motion.

But even if the House passes the resolution, President Biden has pledged to veto it. The administration’s rule, which would require brace owners to register them as rifles, was set to go into effect ...