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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly claimed that vaccines are not tested in ...
When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines ...
A blanket requirement for placebo-controlled trials threatens research ethics and vaccine access, it’s being argued.
Ignoring ethical standards in medicine that have been developed over decades to unilaterally establish placebo controls in ...
The HHS will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo-controlled trials, likely slowing down approvals and decreasing access.
With a demand that vaccine boosters be tested against placebos, RFK Jr. puts an old antivaccine claim at the forefront of ...
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" ...
including by repeatedly claiming that vaccines are not tested in placebo-controlled trials, a familiar anti-vaccine trope. Now, an HHS spokesperson has used similar language in a statement that ...
Kennedy Jr pledged last week that his department will now require all new vaccines to be tested in placebo-controlled trials before being licensed for use. In a statement first given exclusively ...
Yes, according to leading vaccine physician Paul Offit, who denounced the new placebo-controlled trial requirements for vaccines and sought greater clarity: “I don’t know what they’re talking about.” ...