On 12 April 1955, Dr Jonas Salk announced that his vaccine was safe and effective – but he refused to profit from it.

The search for vaccines to fight poliomyelitis started in the 1920s, but it wasn't until the 1950s that the search bore fruit with the introduction of two vaccines. The first was the Salk inactivated ...

Polio reached its apex in the United States in 1952, with roughly 58,000 new cases of the disease reported. People spent their summers, also called "Polio Season," hiding inside, staying away from ...

Stanley Plotkin recalls a night in 1957, during his pediatrics internship, when a father brought a gravely ill toddler into the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital on his shift. The 3-year-old was ...

Creator of the first successful polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk said on the question of who owned the patent for the inactivated polio vaccine in 1955, “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent ...

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found. Researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk ...

Advertisements for freezers, lounge chairs and remedies for itching, gas and constipation were on the fifth page of Uniontown’s Evening Standard on April 16, 1952, which was a Wednesday. As they ...