If you are below the age of 60, the global quest to eradicate polio has accompanied most of your adult life. During that time, the naturally occurring strain of the virus, also known as wild-type ...

Amid funding cuts and political barriers, researchers are asking whether the campaign can ever succeed, and what to do next. Ten years ago, the virus that causes polio seemed to be on its way to ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Sunday, after four weeks of absence from Congress caused by a medical ...

A 78-year-old Oklahoma woman who was diagnosed with polio as a child and was the last American to rely on an iron lung to live has died. Martha Lillard found out she had the once-feared disease when ...

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said ...

Lillard died at age 78 after a struggle with long COVID and the breakdown of her decades-old iron lung Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age ...

Martha Ann Lillard, the last polio survivor in the United States who depended on an iron lung, died on June 26. She was 78. Lillard invited a local news crew to her Shawnee, Oklahoma home three weeks ...

For David Chase, the future is lined with LSD. Alongside his previously announced limited series about the CIA’s MKUltra program, “The Sopranos” creator is also developing a feature that juxtaposes ...

Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin said on Saturday that U.S. energy companies were the main beneficiaries of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, but warned that continued tensions in the artery for ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 6 (Reuters) - Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin said on Saturday that U.S. energy companies were the main beneficiaries of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz but warned ...

Russia's Sechin Says US Companies Benefit From Strait of Hormuz Closure By Vladimir Soldatkin and Olesya Astakhova ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 6 (Reuters) - Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin ⁠said ...

Although polio has been eliminated as an endemic disease in the United States, that isn’t true for other parts of the world. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Level 2 travel ...