STATELINE, Nev. – Tahoe Douglas and South Lake Tahoe Rotary Clubs joined hands on Tuesday, March 17 to host a presentation centered around their decades-long efforts to eradicate polio disease. In ...

As a child, Catharine Coleborne’s mother spent a year in bed with polio. Stories like hers reveal why we can’t afford to go backwards on vaccination.

Revolutionary inventions from the 1920s, including medical breakthroughs like insulin and everyday innovations like Band-Aids, sliced bread, and the polygraph.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For almost 60 years, Dianne Odell lived inside a 7-foot-long metal tube, unable to breathe outside of it but determined not to let it destroy her spirit for life. From her 750-pound ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its polio travel advisory to a Level 2 for 32 countries where ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who founded an antivaccine group and once likened the immunization of children to a holocaust, is transforming a government that long ...

Explore 20 vintage photos of jobs that were incredibly dangerous by today's standards. From skywalkers to oil rig gushers, see how work used to be.

March is Colon Cancer Awareness month. According to a study published in January 2026 by the Journal of American Medical Association, colorectal cancer is now t ...

March is Colon Cancer Awareness month. According to a study published in January 2026 by the Journal of American Medical Association, colorectal cancer is now t ...

A new study shows that ultramarathons damage and replenish red blood cells in ways that could help treat cancer patients.

On the high street in Redcar, there’s a shop selling ornamental animals. These range from an £80 model gorilla to a large blue tit – “slightly damaged” and on sale for £2.

This Black History Month, we're looking back at 137 years of Black first ascensionists, mountaineers, and Olympians who ...