On an August morning in 1949 when I was 6, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and ...

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

(CNN) — Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. In 1954, my father was a pediatrician in Memphis, Tennessee. As part of the worldwide effort to stop polio, he was given a limited ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a fellow polio survivor, issued a statement Friday following reports that a top Kennedy ally, Aaron Siri, had targeted the use of the vaccine for children.

Famed director — and polio survivor — Francis Ford Coppola is urging new Trump administration public health picks be cautious about vaccine skepticism. The 75-year-old filmmaker recently ...