The Republican senator’s childhood bout with the disease has informed his ardent support for vaccines amid increasing ...

Aaron Siri, a lawyer advising Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he prepared to become health secretary, petitioned the Food and Drug ...

A senior World Health Organization official cautioned Wednesday that the eradication of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed back on questioning from Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) about his vaccine views. “I support the ...

Polio is a highly infectious disease that invades the nervous system and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.

When her 5-year-old son’s legs stopped working and a doctor said the word “polio,” this writer felt a terror she never ...

Pakistan reported at least 73 cases last year, up from only one in 2021, and the disease is now rapidly spreading in the country’s most volatile regions.

There are an estimated 300,000 polio survivors in the United States. For some, the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as ...

As a polio survivor, I believe that lethal diseases will recur if RFK Jr. is the next secretary of Health and Human Services.

Then there’s this: Aaron Siri, Kennedy’s lawyer and the person helping him pick top federal health officials, according to ...

Vaccination rates for shots that prevent diseases like polio, measles and others have fallen dramatically for some of the ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the US Department of Health and Human Services, told a US ...