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A blanket requirement for placebo-controlled trials threatens research ethics and vaccine access, it’s being argued.
Yes, according to leading vaccine physician Paul Offit, who denounced the new placebo-controlled trial requirements for ...
Kennedy is a longtime vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, and his appointment to the country’s top health care policy ...
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" ...
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.
RFK Jr. wants placebo trials for vaccines. A Northwestern researcher says that's unethical.
A Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson called the move "a radical departure from past practices." ...
The Department of Health and Human Services says it will require new vaccines to be tested against a placebo, which could ...
Public health experts warn that the change could lead to people getting a placebo shot instead of a necessary vaccine.
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department says it will require placebo testing of "all new vaccines," raising questions ...
The Trump administration will require that all new vaccines get tested against a placebo, a move that could make it harder to make new vaccines available, including the next COVID-19 shots.
More than 880 measles cases have been reported in the U.S. since February, including at least 660 in Texas, amid rising ...