Questions over the likelihood of Kennedy's confirmation took a turn this week after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, the incoming chair ...

In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

Let's never have to tell our children why their sibling or friend died of a preventable disease like polio and measles. Join America's doctors, nurses, and health care professionals who say "no" to ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. If Kennedy rolls back the vaccine's approval, many will suffer and many will die.

A handful of Senate Democrats are said to be leaving the door open to voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the next ...

Thanks to Dan Rodricks for highlighting the efforts of one childhood polio survivor to remind us of the importance of ...

Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the time she got to a hospital in Indianapolis, she was tota ...

My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes Kimberly Witt.

"Some of the kids never stopped crying, not from pain, but from fear and loneliness." These haunting words from Peg Kehret's award winning book Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio remind us of a time ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in November 2024.

Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda have a message for senators who may be entertaining the idea ...

Lysenko—a crackpot with the power of the Soviet state behind him—was the recipient of numerous awards, including, on eight ...