Mitch McConnell returned to Capitol Hill on Monday, September 14, 2026, casting his first Senate vote and making his first public appearance since his June fall. The 84-year-old Kentucky senator ...

Polio vaccination prevents paralysis, but survivors can develop post-polio syndrome decades later. Doctors explain its symptoms and why vaccination still matters. Polio is often spoken about as a ...

Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them. In 2004, Amy Proal got an infection that changed her life. “I was in ...

I guess nobody knows much about post-polio syndrome anymore; since the polio vaccine, there are not many new cases. I'm not sure the medical schools even teach much about polio (the technical word is ...

NIH opened its research facility construction grants to for-profit companies and local governments. Who can apply, how much is available, and the key rules. Four in 10 Pediatricians Say Children ...

A man with pneumonia coughed for a week until bleeding in his abdominal wall made him unstable. He took no blood thinners, making the case rare. Shreveport issued a precautionary boil advisory for 19 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Sunday, after four weeks of absence from Congress caused by a medical ...

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., nearly a month after being hospitalized, revealed what actually happened to cause his absence from the Senate. In a lengthy statement released Sunday evening, McConnell ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LEX NEWS) — Sen. Mitch McConnell has released a statement to the public regarding his ongoing health condition and a recent four week-long hospital stay, along with a photo with his ...