Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on April 12, 1955, as the Salk polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for Americans. A ...

An associate professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support 12 months of full-time study about the ...

Any of us around in the 1950s remember how scary the thought of contracting polio was. Mothers would insist their children rest in the summer afternoons. I remember pictures of large hospital rooms ...