A mysterious polio-like disease could challenge our healthcare infrastructure. And, zooming in on non-cancerous cells in and ...

Rotary International, which tracks polio survivors like Rita Competti, is certain the Ohioan is the oldest polio survivor in the United States.

By Joyce ChimbiJoyce Nakhumicha was an all-round healthy baby, born in the planting season of 1977 in western Kenya. In the ...

At the end of the same year, it was reported that children in a secluded Amish village in the United States had contracted vaccine-derived polio 1. Now, over 70 children in Nigeria have also ...

The femoral artery is the largest artery in the thigh. It supplies oxygen-rich blood to the leg. Blockage is due to plaque buildup or atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis in the leg arteries causes ...

Many young people have little pain but are self-conscious about the appearance of their legs and do not even realize the danger that lies ahead for many of them. In middle aged people, bowlegs are ...

Aims: To obtain age references for sitting height (SH), leg length (LL), and SH/H ratio in the Netherlands; to evaluate how SH standard deviation score (SDS), LL SDS, SH/H SDS, and SH/LL SDS are ...

For instance, in Morobe Province, the coverage for the third dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV3) was just 44% in 2024.

While presiding over a meeting of the Provincial Polio Task Force, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah highlighted the necessity of accountability at every level. He said, "every missed child is a ...

“It’s difficult for me to discuss polio or post-polio,” said Wesley Moss of Marietta. “I’ve worn a long leg brace on my left leg since I was about 2 years old.” Survivors say the fact ...