Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will require new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, marking what a department spokesperson called "a radical departure from past practices." ...

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly claimed in public statements that most vaccines recommended for children in the US have not been tested against placebos, ...

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The U.S. health department, under the guidance of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says it intends to add the requirement of a placebo testing phase in vaccine trials to provide more ...

Some say they deserve a real dose right away. Others say the trial must go on. With Pfizer and its partner BioNTech on the cusp of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, a major ethical ...

It took five weeks to arrive at a number: There have been 258 placebo-controlled clinical trials of vaccines, according to Scott and a team of volunteers who scoured databases of medical literature.