VACCINE BRINGS POLIO ELIMINATION WITHIN REACH
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).
PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE – USA – THE POLIO CRUSADE
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.
VIDEO PRESENTATIONS OF BREATHING & SLEEP SYMPOSIUM – USA
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 ...
DOCUMENTARY “THE POLIO CRUSADE”
This very interesting documentary is part of the series "American Experience".