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Name Life Comments Alan Alda: born 1936: Actor who played Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H.Alda contracted polio at age seven, during an epidemic. His parents administered a painful treatment, developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny, in which hot woollen blankets were applied to the limbs and the muscles were stretched by massage.
TODAY kids' names: Take a closer look at the names of the TODAY co-hosts' children, ... The name James, which means "supplanter," is a current favorite for both baby boys and girls. Anthony is an ...
Pages in category "Polio survivors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 227 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Naomi Rogers, Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and The Golden Age of American Medicine (Oxford University Press, N.Y. 2014) Wade Alexander, Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Maverick Heroine of The Polio Treatment Controversy, (Greystone Press, San Luis Obispo CA 2012). Note: This is an unredacted edition which includes content not in the Outback Press/CQU 2003 ...
Salk gives a shot of the polio vaccine to a girl during test trials in 1954. Bettmann/Getty Images In 1954, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sponsored a trial to test Salk's vaccine.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe began an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio on Tuesday after health authorities detected three cases caused by the rare ...
An adjustable easel was set up to hold her paper and a tray for paints. She finished her first drawing of a chapel in the woods ten years after getting polio. [5] Each of her works of art took about two months to complete. [7] [8] She made drawings and paintings that were used in Christmas cards, [9] [7] like Madonna and Child. [10]
This is a list of actors and actresses who have had roles on the soap opera All My Children. It aired from January 1970 to September 2011 and was revived for five months in 2013. The longest serving cast member is Susan Lucci, who played the heroine Erica Kane from January 1970 to the original finale in September 2011.