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" ...

The top US health department plans to require placebo testing for all vaccines in an effort to offer "straightforward" public ...

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 ...

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.

Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s direction, the Department of Health and Human Services is requiring that all new ...

“Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, all new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is changing the way vaccines are tested and will now require all ...

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 ...

While vaccines for newly-discovered pathogens are run through placebo tests, experts say that testing vaccines this way for ...

Public health experts warn that the change could lead to people getting a placebo shot instead of a necessary vaccine.