Nine years before Mark O’Brien died, the 36-year-old poet and journalist, who was also a polio survivor living in an iron lung, decided he wanted to lose his virginity. Until then, he’d always been ...

The fear and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic may feel new to many of us. But it is strangely familiar to those who lived through the polio epidemic of the last century. Like a horror ...

Black Bear Pictures is launching development on “The Impossible War,” a movie chronicling efforts by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin to develop anti-polio vaccines. Black Bear won the auction for Robert ...

Don Amsbaugh remembers the fateful morning when he woke up and couldn’t move. The Fremont resident had seen the doctor the day before, after feeling a stiffness in his neck and flu symptoms he ...

In Tom Roberts’ timely Pakistan-set documentary “Every Last Child,” courageous volunteers, the World Health Organization and local police join forces to combat the Taliban’s murderous opposition to ...

MEERUT, Feb 4 Amid all the hoopla over the Oscar nomination sweep by Slumdog Millionaire, there's a real-life Indian tale of beating the odds that is also vying for the prized golden statuette. A ...

Hutchinson? A Hutchinson man is working on a documentary about area survivors of polio, a crippling childhood disease that swept the nation in the 1940s and 1950s. Nathan Guy said he got the idea for ...

EXCLUSIVE: After getting a Best Picture nomination for a movie about the race to crack the Enigma Code, The Imitation Game producer Black Bear Pictures will now make a film about the race to cure the ...

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in ...

The fear and uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic may feel new to many of us. But it is strangely familiar to those who lived through the polio epidemic of the last century. Like a horror ...