Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have proved itself as a weapon of definite though limited value against poliomyelitis. So. certainly, thought Pittsburgh's Dr. William McD. Hammon, the epidemiologist who pioneered mass tests with it (TIME, Nov. 3, 1952). But this week a score of the nation's leading experts on polio and immunization turned thumbs down on G.G. (Dr. Hammon was on the panel, but his position was not disclosed...
After a three-day discussion of last year's polio outbreaks in communities where gamma globulin was injected into tens of thousands of children and into older members of families in which a case had occurred, the experts concluded...
...Mass production of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's polio vaccine has been delayed by minor snags in manufacture, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced. So the ambitious program of nationwide test inoculations (TIME, Nov. 23) will not get started until late March or early April...
...partly paralyzed victims of past polio epidemics, three orthopedic surgeons reported a promising technique. At Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in San Francisco, they transplanted muscle from the chest. Patients who could not bend their elbows can now lift weights; two who were unable to close their lower jaws, because of wasted muscles, now can chew hard food...
...captured her first title at 11, only four months after an attack of non-paralytic polio: the Eastern U.S. Ladies' Juvenile Figure Skating Championship. She went on to take the Triple Crown of World, North American, and U.S. titles...