Before vaccines and public health triumphs, polio was the thing that kept parents up at night. During its peak from 1948 to ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is perhaps the most famous polio sufferer and survivor. He was an adult when, in 1921, he was diagnosed with polio after awakening one morning unable to move his legs.

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than ever.

Roosevelt made it clear that polio did not discriminate by age, race, gender or social status. On Sept. 5, 1936, now President Roosevelt visited Indianapolis and made a stop at Riley Hospital for ...

It is expected within the next 20 years that 20-60 million people will get atrial fibrillation. The current treatments include medication and ablations, but those can damage other heart tissues ...

But after a few minutes of walking with a bit more intent — arms moving, posture upright, and pace just brisk enough to make me feel like I was going somewhere — it started to click.

After electric shocks didn’t work for Kroy for longer than three to four days, Dr. Shaik recommended a new treatment called pulse field ablation. “I’m also otherwise known as the electrician.

To remember FDR, who profoundly changed America with his New Deal programs, take a look at some fascinating facts about his ...

TICKFAW, La. — A work release inmate who walked off a job site in Tickfaw has been recaptured, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said Friday. Donald Ray Wilson, 42, was taken into custody ...

A palm tree planted to commemorate the death of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt still stands 75 years after his death. Tucson firefighter Charles Rice planted the tree behind Fire Station #2 on S. 4th ...

Will Whitten, 18, wanted to recover from a car accident that left him unable to move his arms or legs so he could walk at his high school graduation. TIRR Memorial Hermann threw a mock ceremony to ...