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

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.

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

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 died in Warm Springs, Georgia at his Little White House. On Saturday, the 80th anniversary, people gathered to pay tribute.

Six months after its editorial on polio season, The Daily Notes had a front page story, “Whistles Will Herald Start of Mothers’ March on Polio.” It reported how, on Jan. 28, 1953, factory whistles, ...

Even programs and agencies established after Roosevelt’s tenure, such as Medicare and U.S.A.I.D., are built upon the core premise of his New Deal: The end of politics is to care for people.

President Donald Trump seemed to question a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood battle with polio — after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert ...

For the remainder of his life, Roosevelt would wear braces to prop him up during public speeches, but he would never be able to stand or walk on his own. Thanks to the efforts of American ...

After President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was diagnosed with polio at 39 and was left partially paralyzed, announced the creation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1938 ...