Polio Survivors Ireland, originally founded as the Post-Polio Support Group, is the result of two ladies, Joan Bradley and Rosaleen Gallagher, who both had polio. Joan, experiencing unexplained weakness and pain, found her symptoms dismissed by doctors. Around the same time, Rosaleen had just been in the USA and had ...

Greetings to all our Member Organisations, our individual members, our honorary members, and to those Bodies who support and carry out the battle against Polio,  and the promotion of measures to fight the effect of post-polio syndrome (PPS). At a time when polio is again headline news around the globe ...

A new vaccine designed to combat the last two strains of polio is being used for the first time in southern Afghanistan in an attempt to eradicate the disease globally (Sam Lister writes).

The Public Broadcasting Service, funded by ther US Federal Government, commissioned and broadcast a series of programmes on polio and its medical, social & psychological effects on those it infected and affected in the middle of the 20th Century.

On November 1st there was a free symposium on Breathing & Sleep for people with neuromuscular disorders in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA. For European people a bit far to travel for just this one day. But the Salk Institute put videos of the presentations held at ...

This very interesting documentary is part of the series "American Experience".