Joni Mitchell turns 82 today and has taken a backseat with her music career after suffering many different health issues ...

On an August morning in 1949 when I was 6, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and in an iron lung, and I spent the next five months in a polio ...

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 with polio ...

I’ve written about polio several times before, but as one who was afflicted with this devastating disease in August 1955, I can’t express enough my horror that there is any conversation going on ...

Francis Ford Coppola in Sao Paulo, Brazil in October. Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola has vivid memories of his experience surviving polio. In interview with Deadline regarding his new ...