On April 12, 1955, the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk and his colleagues was officially declared ‘safe, effective and potent ...

The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans ...

Seventy years ago, a remarkable breakthrough changed the course of public health forever. On April 12, 1955, the world ...

But Jonas Salk ... like the March of Dimes. Salk was never in it for the money, and he never forgot where he came from. In 1963, he established the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in ...

"I couldn't possibly have become a member of this institute if I hadn't founded it myself," he said. Jonas Salk died of congestive heart failure in 1995.

This sentiment applies to an untold number of Americans but also to Dr. Jonas Salk, the virologist whose injectable polio vaccine Mr. Greene also mentions. I contracted polio in August 1955 after ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies ... all of us will miss his presence and his wisdom.” Cohn joined the institute in 1961 after a personal invitation from Jonas Salk to work there ...

There is still no cure for the disease. But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced a way to prevent it. This infectious viral disease attacks the nerve cells ...