Jonas Salk had a huge impact on virology, on the United States, and on the longevity of thousands of baby boomers. The world could certainly use more scientists who follow his philosophy of ...

Jonas Salk was born 100 years ago today. And so today, we're going to look back at that polio vaccine trial with Dr. David Oshinsky, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book, "Polio: An American ...

J onas Salk was home with his wife, but she could tell his mind was elsewhere—back in his lab, where work was proceeding apace on what would become the first vaccine against polio. “Why Jonas ...

Some of that money had funded Dr. Jonas Salk's creation in 1952 of an experimental "killed-virus" polio vaccine, and his subsequent experiments that proved the vaccine's safety in humans.

Jonathan Salk, in his 20s and eventually headed to medical school, got a call one day from his famous father, Jonas Salk, the University of Pittsburgh scientist whose polio vaccine was celebrated ...

Jonas Salk spent the last decades of his life living on Ellentown Road, a dreamy spot above Black’s Beach in La Jolla where the air is forever filled with sea salt.

Salk "would be shocked" by the rise of the contemporary anti-vaccine movement, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Bell Ringer Assignment Explain how Isabel Morgan influenced Jonas Salk's idea on developing a polio vaccine. Explain John Enders' impact on Salk's polio vaccine plan.

Tony Hunter is pictured shortly before moving from England to the United States in 1975 (left) and at La Jolla’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies this year, wearing a T-shirt with Jonas ...

Jonathan Salk now has updated the book, described as a photographic essay, with new data, graphics and redesign, offering a message to a new generation about population trends and their impact on ...