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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is requiring all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing in a new policy change meant to ...
A Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson called the move "a radical departure from past practices." ...
RFK Jr. wants placebo trials for vaccines. A Northwestern researcher says that's unethical.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is changing the way vaccines are tested and will now require all ...
A blanket requirement for placebo-controlled trials threatens research ethics and vaccine access, it’s being argued.
Dr. Peter Hotez, Co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, joins "Forbes Newsroom" ...
Kennedy is a longtime vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, and his appointment to the country’s top health care policy ...
From sowing doubt about childhood vaccines to appointing fringe researchers to lead bogus studies, Kennedy is advancing the ...
Doctors say for diseases like measles or polio, they argue it may be wrong to withhold vaccines from people in a placebo group when those vaccines have already been shown to be effective.
The potential change outlined in a statement says all new vaccines will be required to undergo placebo testing, a procedure in which some people receive the vaccine and others receive an inert ...
Public health experts warn that the change could lead to people getting a placebo shot instead of a necessary vaccine.
The top US health department plans to require placebo testing for all vaccines in an effort to offer "straightforward" public ...