From leg braces to lightning speed, Wilma Rudolph rewrote what’s possible. This video distills the fitness journey every champion should know: born premature and struck by polio and scarlet fever, ...

The All-Stations Challenge is a fundraiser to contribute to the global fund to eradicate polio. Once a global disease, polio is now endemic in just two countries. Looking at photos of his father as a ...

Looking at photos of his father as a child, Mark Anderson always wondered why his old man wore calipers attached to his legs. Mr Anderson also remembers many of his classmates at school in the 1960s ...

PHOENIX — A man convicted of the 2008 murder of a 62-year-old disabled Tucson woman may get the chance for a new trial. In a ruling Friday, the Arizona Supreme Court said that Luis A. Vargas had the ...

A man convicted of murder in the 2008 disappearance of a Tucson Sunday school teacher was sentenced to life in prison Monday. Luis Vargas was convicted in August of first-degree murder, burglary, ...

One of my earliest childhood memories is the day we came home from school after getting our polio vaccines. My mother was ...

Well meaning parents question the need to vaccinate their children and even to receive Covid vaccinations. Public health experts are concerned low vaccination rates may lead to reoccurring paralytic ...

Doctors say several diseases deadly to children are likely to make a resurgence. This is a KFF Health News story. Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against ...

This is a KFF Health News story. Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against diseases that have killed and maimed millions of children. Many critics of the ...

A month after an outpatient plastic surgery procedure, the Detroit native's eyes fluttered open. She heard machines beeping, and her mother crying out her name. Fowler’s abdomen gaped open. And she ...

Wivine Kavira Mukata was in the kitchen preparing plantains and fish soup for her family on the day in February 2014 when a bomb tore through her home in Beni, in eastern Congo’s war-hit North Kivu ...