Nearly three dozen local businesses sponsored this full-page ad which ran in The Daily News for the March of Dimes' 1950 campaign against polio. This ad is from January 1950.

An associate professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support 12 months of full-time study about the ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, hospital wards in the U.S. were filled with iron lungs helping many children, and some adults, who had polio breathe and stay alive. The use of polio vaccines have helped make ...

Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to 1955, the disease swept through towns across America, hitting children the ...

For many Memorial Day marks the unofficial beginning of summer but a century ago it ushered in a far less popular time — "polio season." Many years between the early 1990s and mid-1950s saw major ...