As they prepared to leave their home early Saturday, Nelson grabbed the polio insurance policy he’d purchased. The year was ...

The polio vaccine, which saved countless lives in the 1950s, was not held back by political wrangling or bans.

A wide-ranging Washington Post-KFF poll details who tends to reject vaccine recommendations and their reasoning.

A new survey shows parents still overwhelmingly support vaccine mandates for measles and polio, as Florida moves to remove ...

A prominent Australian dreamt of ridding the world of polio, but a vaccine-derived strain of the virus festers on our ...

When I noticed the thin scab on my upper thigh, I was filled with ​5-year-old pride. It was 1940. The dime-sized scab was my badge of courage and my ticket to enter kindergarten.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but yesterday, Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said the state will be working to ...

Public health experts warn vaccine panel changes could worsen declining Oklahoma immunization rates, with measles cases already at 30-year highs.

Dr. Alok Patel explains how diseases like polio, measles, chickenpox and tetanus spread rapidly before vaccines, and what ...

Public skepticism of vaccines is on the rise. This public health expert makes the case for why school vaccine mandates.

Ohio Republican objected to Democratic resolution supporting school vaccine requirements as Florida moves to end mandates.

What if the political right had leaned into everyone getting the shot instead of 'Let's just gain herd immunity and let it run its course'?