I’m going to let my grandfather, Walter Krueger, take my history column this week. After graduating from NDSU, Walt and his ...

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

The 70th anniversary celebration of the Salk polio vaccine took place Friday afternoon in the Teplitz Memorial Courtroom in ...

The 1950s was a turning point for polio. Amid deadly outbreaks, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine that saved countless lives ...

In some patients, however, the virus enters nerve cells in the brain or spine, where it multiplies and kills the cells that control muscle movement. When that happens, a polio sufferer experiences ...

This guidance is part of the The purpose of health records section of the Good practice guidelines for GP electronic patient records. Everyone in a health and care organisation is responsible for ...

Ongoing shortages of opioid medicines are impacting palliative care patients, with some unable to access medications that typically relieve pain, distress and discomfort. Some people have ended up ...

Humphries made one outrageously false claim after another on Rogan’s podcast, at various points claiming that tuberculosis “was a side effect of the smallpox vaccine,” that polio cases were ...

While people today have a wealth of information at their fingertips, it’s increasingly difficult for patients to differentiate between fact and fiction. Taking concrete steps to address ...

Given a grant to research the polio virus in 1948, he had an early form of the vaccine prepared by 1950. Salk tried the vaccine on himself, his family, and former patients before making his ...

There was a hint of panic when three cases of polio were reported in Fargo in 1921. The Ward County newspaper warned, “It is certain that the disease will spread over the state at an early date.” ...

While it is worth celebrating the improvements in patient safety and quality, such as reductions in hospital-acquired infections and early elective deliveries, it also is imperative that hospitals ...