In 1894, the first Children’s Hospital in Columbus opened near Franklin Park with just nine beds. ... Used to be the polio ward from the 1940s up until the early 1950s.

On Friday, Farrow reflected on her experience with polio and being separated from her parents while she was placed in the ...

Francis Ford Coppola is issuing a dire warning on polio amid concerns about the future of vaccines.. The Kennedy Center honoree recalled his experience with the disease after recent reports ...

During the summer of 1944, children under the age of 14 could not participate in some of their usual activities due to a polio outbreak in the Louisville area.

Diagnosed with polio as a three-year-old in 1950, she was hospitalized, on a ward with other children with polio, in a place called the Industrial Home for Crippled Children. She was separated ...

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed ...

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward.

Coppola, now 85, painted a bleak picture of his time in a polio ward. “I remember the kids in the iron lungs who you could see their faces on mirrors, and they were all crying for their parents.

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new film “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who was diagnosed ...