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Explore eight surprising facts about the groundbreaking polio vaccine that Dr. Salk developed.

Many people once lined up joyously to receive vaccines. What changed?

It said this would be the best way to assure fair handling of the lifesaving shots during the next 100 days when supplies are especially short.

/PRNewswire/ -- March of Dimes announces two early career scientists as recipients of the 2022 Basil OConnor Starter Scholar Research Awards: Dr. Antonina...

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek ……….. Welcome back to the Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker guide to building the ultimate 20th century

How a backlash against racial liberalism led to the rise of a philanthropy that discourages discussions on race.

Most people celebrated Salk’s shot. This soda-hating businessman did not.

The Epidemic Intelligence Service Today’s CDC is known for assisting U.S. state health departments and other countries’ ministries of health during local outbreaks and emergency responses. While the malaria control program set precedent for this practice, the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) improved CDC’s ability to support states. Dr. Alexander D. Langmuirexternal icon created the EIS program in 1951 to aid the states in the control of communicable disease. At its inception, the EIS...

AP President Biden receives his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine from Ric Cuming, chief nurse executive, at ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del. Jan. 11.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. We’re full-throttle into mass distribution of covid-19 vaccines. And let there be no doubt, their rapid development is an extraordinary achievement. I want to underscore that by revisiting what I wrote...

Dr. Edward Jenner performing his first smallpox vaccination on James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. May 14, 1796. Jan. 28—With just 15 million Americans having been administered vaccine against COVID-19 to this date—and far, far fewer even in many developed countries—the success of the COVID-19 vaccination drive depends on more than production and distribution rates and public health systems. It also needs what seems, in the United States, to be a scarce virtue among its citizens: commitm...