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The Last Person In America Living Inside An Iron Lung Is Gone
A five-year-old girl woke up on a sunny morning in Oklahoma in 1953 and could barely move her neck. Four days later, Martha Ann Lillard could not breathe. She would spend the next 73 years living with the consequences of polio, much of that time inside a steel machine that forced her lungs to work.…
The Medical Breakthrough That Quietly Saved Millions of Lives
Vaccines rarely dominate the news unless a major health crisis puts them back into the spotlight. Their greatest achievements are often invisible because successful vaccination programs prevent outbreaks before they begin, allowing millions of people to live healthy lives without ever experiencing diseases that once devastated entire communities. That quiet success has made vaccines seem…
A Federal Judge Just Froze RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda
On a Monday morning in March, a federal courtroom in Boston became the center of one of the most consequential public health disputes the United States has seen in recent years. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy had spent weeks weighing a case that put major medical organizations on one side and the federal government on…
AAP Splits from CDC to Issue Independent Childhood Vaccine Guidance
Parents once had a single, unified plan they could rely on for their children’s health. Now, that partnership has split, leaving families with two very different paths to follow. The American Academy of Pediatrics has taken the rare step of rejecting the CDC’s new vaccine schedule, releasing its own guidance that keeps protections in place…