With measles outbreaks and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. making scary headlines, celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ...

On April 12, 1955, the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk was declared safe and effective following ... the Salk ...

Jonas Salk is one of science’s folk heroes ... At the same time, another researcher named Albert Sabin was working on a live-virus vaccine to be taken orally. Sabin believed that only a live ...

In January, 1955, Albert B. Sabin inoculated 30 volunteers at Ohio's Chillicothe Reformatory, with a weakened strain of live polio virus. Just three months later, Jonas E. Salk announced that he ...

Jonas Salk is among the most venerated medical scientists ... Salk's vaccine was soon replaced by a variation developed by Albert Sabin that could be taken orally. There were pros and cons to ...

But at the peak of its devastation in the United States, Jonas Salk introduced ... By 1959, 90 other countries used Salk's vaccine. Another researcher, Albert Sabin, didn't think Salk's killed ...

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 ...

Frederick C. Robbins isolated and grew the poliovirus, which allowed Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin to develop the first successful polio vaccines. While a professor of pediatrics at the School of ...