Jan. 31, 2011— -- In the Manhattan double townhouse where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recuperated from polio in the summer of 1921, billionaire Bill Gates on Monday began the latest ...

DALLAS — Franklin D. Roosevelt may not have had polio at all, but a paralyzing disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome, Texas researchers say in a study that calls into question all the history books ...

Virus and host. Infection ; Symptoms ; Diagnosis ; "To keep up his courage" -- "He's through." "The psychological factor is paramount" ; "Perfectly definite in my determination" ; "A tower of blocks" ...

The World Risks Forgetting One Of Humanity's Greatest Triumphs As Polio Nears Global Eradication − 70 Years After Jonas Salk ...

In The Man He Became, historian James Tobin says, despite misimpressions to the contrary, Americans of Franklin Roosevelt's day were well-aware of... Roosevelt's Polio Wasn't A Secret: He Used It To ...

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in ...

I have a thing about remembering dates, so when I see a certain date on the calendar, or one approaching, I can usually attach to it a memory or some historical significance. April 12 is one of those ...

Attendees at a recent Rotary Club of Mount Pleasant meeting were brought up to speed on Rotary International's mission to rid the world of polio, which is currently endemic in only two countries: ...