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 government health policy.

When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines ...

A prior phase II trial had shown that BCG revaccination in teens led to 45.4% efficacy in reversion from positive to negative ...

With its twice-yearly dosing, the siRNA-based drug might lead to better compliance with treatment. Still, cost is an issue.

A blanket requirement for placebo-controlled trials threatens research ethics and vaccine access, it’s being argued.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has misleadingly claimed that vaccines are not tested in ...

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" ...

Ignoring ethical standards in medicine that have been developed over decades to unilaterally establish placebo controls in ...

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 ...