Book Reviews: 'Medical Miracles,' '7 Wheelchairs,' and 'The Sun and the Moon' Nov 30, 2008
Presley was part of the last generation of polio patients in the United States: he became sick in 1959, right after receiving a booster shot of the old Salk vaccine. Whether the illness was from the vaccine or despite it was never clear, and in the end made little difference: within a week both legs were paralyzed, both arms drastically weakened, and he could not breathe. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Disability doesn't slow down this volunteer Nov 24, 2008
Thanks to the Salk vaccine and soon afterward the Sabin oral vaccine, natural polio infections have been virtually eliminated from the U.S. But that doesn't mean ramifications of the disease don't surface later. "Doctors told my parents I defied him and all the odds of surviving polio back then," the 61-year-old Roetman said. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
A question of faith Nov 23, 2008
Or other nonsense: Maher, for example, claims that aspirin is lethal, doubts that the Salk vaccine eradicated polio, and has praised the horse that threw Christopher Reeve. So it is unsurprising that Maher sees only the foolishness and evil that religious people, like all people, are capable of, and misses entirely the extraordinary good that religion engenders. (Boston Globe)
Russia Chooses Inactivated Polio Vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur for Primary Immunization of all Infants Nov 12, 2008
" Four-million doses of IPV IMOVAX Polio(TM) have been delivered to date, ensuring that a complete birth cohort (approximately 1.3 million babies are born every year in Russia) can receive the recommended three doses of IPV vaccine. "The Chumakov Institute was the first to produce oral polio vaccine which was instrumental in eradicating poliomyelitis in Russia," said Academician Sergey Drosdov, Senior Scientific Advisor of M.P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides Russian... (Canada Newswire)
DOCS defends drugs for kids in care Nov 3, 2008
Children in orphanages were used in pharmaceutical tests in the past (published studies confirm this, e.g. Salk vaccine in the 50s and 60s. I wonder how much big pharma pay the Government to allow this testing to continue under the guise of 'medicating uncontrollable children. (ABC Online)
Anxious to see 'Dark Knight'? Jul 4, 2008
And, while he was alive, it s not like he concocted the Salk vaccine or wrote the Declaration of Independence ... And, while he was alive, it s not like he concocted the Salk vaccine or wrote the Declaration of Independence. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
More than 150 people attend March for Babies' event May 3, 2008
Its original goal and mission was to find a cure for polio, which it did with funding the research for the Salk Vaccine. Through programs of research, community service, education and advocacy, the March of Dimes has made great strides toward the goal of seeing that babies are born as healthy as possible. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Area March of Dimes Ambassador named May 2, 2008
March of Dimes efforts culminate in Salk vaccine declared safe, effective and potent. 1958. (Demotte Kankakee Valley Post News, IN)
A polio-free world Feb 26, 2008
70 per dose for the Salk vaccine, with two injections required. Polio will be with us a while longer. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
No cellphones allowed in FCATs Feb 5, 2008
Then again, we took the Salk vaccine for polio and practiced hiding under our desks or huddled in the school basements - Civilian Defense shelters. By BARRY MORSE. (The Palm Beach Post)
Sir John Harvey-Jones Jan 11, 2008
His adult life seems to have been shaped when, in 1954, his daughter caught polio, just months before the Salk vaccine was discovered, and became severely disabled. Virtually overnight Harvey-Jones threw up his naval career and took a job as a time-and-motion study man at ICI. How he got from this ordinary job on Teesside to the top of the company has never been properly chronicled, despite the series of books he later wrote. (Guardian Unlimited -- Education)
Offering vaccines should be a priority Oct 29, 2007
I lived through the polio period before the Salk vaccine and had friends who were permanently harmed by that disease. Also, smallpox wiped out American Indian villages in the 1800s, and tuberculosis sent many to sanitariums in the early 1900s. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
New Wheelchair Helps People with Disabilities to Live as Normal a Life as Possible Aug 12, 2007
"It was during the epidemic in 1955 that I first came down with it. At that time the Salk vaccine was being given to kids 5 and older. My brother and sister got the vaccine, but I didn't and I came down with the disease.". Burns is not alone in his battle. (South County Chronicle, VA)
How politics pushed the HPV vaccine Aug 11, 2007
Not since the Salk vaccine was triumphantly unveiled in 1955 as the miracle drug that would end the scourge of polio has there been as much hoopla surrounding a vaccine as there is today about one that is being touted for having the potential to eradicate cervical cancer. Nor has there been in the ensuing five decades a vaccine that has been such a lightning rod for social controversy and political grandstanding. (Globe and Mail)
Assisted suicide attacked from an unlikely front Aug 6, 2007
Longmore was stricken with polio in 1953, when the Salk vaccine, which would eradicate the disease, was first undergoing clinical tests. Now 60, he has limited use of only one hand and is dependent on a portable ventilator for breathing. (Los Angeles Times)
Lake Mills has its 10th Relay For Life Jul 31, 2007
don't know which dollar is going to bring the breakthrough, like penicillin and the Salk vaccine against polio. He said he doesn't know which dollar will bring the breakthrough, but it will all become a pyramid, and somewhere out there the peak will be passed, and it's going to make a difference and cancer will be conquered. (Watertown Daily Times, WI)
TB diagnosis does not repeal a person's rights Jun 6, 2007
When I was a young boy, growing up in the early 1950s before the Salk vaccine became widely available against polio, pictures of boys and girls lying in "iron lung" machines struck fear into our hearts. Having to spend one's life captive to a body-sized metal cylinder in order to breathe was terrifying, and the risk of contracting polio was real. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Medical nihilism and the HPV vaccine Mar 4, 2007
The Salk vaccine cut the risk of polio by 96 percent and prevented thousands of cases of the disease. What the Winchell episode foretold, however, was the rise of a kind of medical nihilism. (Boston Globe)
Cancer shots for girls clears House Feb 27, 2007
Siler said his friend once told him that if the Salk vaccine had been released one month earlier, he could have been protected. Siler called on lawmakers to do whatever they could to prevent others from suffering. (Leitchfield Grayson County, KY)
