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

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." ...

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

The potential change outlined in a statement would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, sparking concerns ...

The department will now require all new vaccines to undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials, meaning some people ...

If the FDA deems Pfizer’s and Moderna’s updated vaccines “new” products, it’s extremely unlikely the doses would be ready for ...

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

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

The plans amount to an extraordinary flex of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s power as health secretary to make decisions ordinarily ...