Professor Joan McMeeken AM

Professorial Fellow Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; Foundation Professor and Head School of Physiotherapy 1991-2007, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Modern lessons from our polio past

Before there was a vaccine, one polio treatment used infected blood to create a serum. But there are lessons to be learned from the past when it comes to COVID-19

Health & Medicine

Remembering Australia’s polio scourge

The movie Breathe reminds us of the days when polio indiscriminately cut down the fit and healthy, so what was it like in Australia for those who contracted the disease?

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